These 20-something hackers won $375,000 and a Model 3 for finding a Tesla bug via CNBCMakeIt
Two 20-something computer hackers exposed a security bug in the Tesla Model 3 that allowed them to hack into the electric car's internal web browser. Instead of getting in trouble, they walked away with their own Model 3, along with a total of $375,000 in prize money.
Zhu and Cama identified a JIT bug in the Model 3's web browser that allowed them to hack into the car's system and write a message on the car's dashboard display screen, the Zero Day Initiative said in a blog post. For their effort, the pair was allowed to keep the car and they also won $35,000 just for that one hack. Pwn2Own hands out prize money to competitors who identify bugs in products from huge tech companies like Tesla, Apple, Microsoft and others.
Meanwhile, Tesla responded to the Flouroacetate team's victory by thanking the duo for their work and the company promised to release a software update to fix the issue.
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