1000 photos download overnight through Photo stream?

I woke up to my iPhone 5s having downloaded 1000 photos from photo stream with no apparent reason for a change in my photo stream to cause that many old photos to upload. I logged into my Mac mini and booted iPhoto and the same 1000 photos, all were duplicates, began downloading as well. Anyone have an idea why I had this massive download out of nowhere?

Hi Robh5791,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
My Photo Stream saves the last 1000 photos taken and pushes them to all of your devices on the same Apple ID that have My Photo Stream turned on.
iCloud: My Photo Stream FAQ
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
How many photos are stored in My Photo Stream on my devices and computers?
iCloud pushes all your photos to the My Photo Stream album on your devices and computers, and manages them efficiently, so you don’t run out of storage space.
Your iOS devices keep a rolling collection of your last 1000 photos in the My Photo Stream album. From there, you can browse your recent photos or move the ones you like to your Camera Roll or another album to keep them on your device forever.
I hope this helps,
-Joe

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If you have an album called "Photo Stream" with 3000 photos in it, and your camera roll is empty, it's likely that it was either synced to your phone using iTunes from a folder on your computer named "Photo Stream", or it is a shared stream created by someone else, in which case it would appear in the "Shared" section of the Photos app.
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