This is inside of a
BESTK USB charging station. I purchased it on Amazon a while ago and I began to noticed that it was charging devices very slowly. It turns out some of the resistors for supply the data lines with the correct voltages had burned up.
Anyway, I saw on Amazon
that some people were reporting some serious problems with this product overheating, so I thought I'd take a look to see if there's anything else that could be going wrong and I noticed one of the capacitors had what looks like some sort of beige dust on the top. I asked an electrical engineering friend (very non-practical type :p) but he says there's no way of tell if there's anything going wrong unless I desolder and measure every single one and have a full schematic of the entire product to reference (which I don't).
Anyway,
I've circled the capacitor in question, if anyone has any thoughts it'd be great to hear from you. Thanks.
PS: There are two pictures of the same capacitor (and a neighboring one which does not seem to be physically deformed at all), my phone's flash is obnoxious so it may be a little hard to see everything in one photo or the other.