Pwn2Own 2015 Contestant Gets The Biggest Payout In History

A total of $442,000 paid in bounties to all contestants.

Well, it seems like no one was safe in this year’s Pwn2Own hacking competition as all 4 major web browsers have failed to protect the users.

The star of this contest however was Jung Hoon Lee (lokihardt) who has managed to reap $225,000 in rewards, breaking through Chrome’s security with a buffer overflow (which earned him $110,000) and then exploiting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer ($65,000 in rewards), followed by Apple’s Safari ($50,000 in rewards).

That should be enough to improve his life for good.

For a video recap, see the video below:

And if you are wondering if Firefox was hacked, it was, just by another contestant.

[Thanks, Blake]