Nintendo just paid off 3 people for the HackerOne Program
Last year, Nintendo debutted its HackerOne program that involved giving a bounty of range of $100 - $20,000 to hackers that disclose their system exploits and vulnerabilities for the 3DS. Everyone thought it wouldn't work out for Nintendo, but just around last month the program was extended to include the Nintendo Switch too.
Just recently as you can see in the picture, three people were rewarded so far, however the amounts paid will not be made public. It seems as if a few hackers wouldn't mind giving out their newfound exploits for some easy cash, hopefully for the sake of the Switch hacking scene, it isn't the same with our own resident hackers.
A few examples of what information Nintendo is interested in receiving:
- System vulnerabilities regarding Nintendo Switch
- Privilege escalation from userland
- Kernel takeover
- ARM® TrustZone® takeover
- Vulnerabilities regarding Nintendo-published applications for Nintendo Switch
- Userland takeover
- System vulnerabilities regarding the Nintendo 3DS family of systems
- Privilege escalation on ARM® ARM11™ userland
- ARM11 kernel takeover
- ARM® ARM9™ userland takeover
- ARM9 kernel takeover
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