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Sony Awarded a Hacker $50,000 for Privately Reporting a PS5 Exploit He Found With AI — Now He's Public Enemy Number One

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Sony Awarded a Hacker $50,000 for Privately Reporting a PS5 Exploit He Found With AI — Now He's Public Enemy Number One

A hacker sparked an uproar within the PlayStation 5 homebrew scene for privately reporting an exploit to Sony and cashing in on a $50,000 reward, rather than keeping it confidential for the community.

A hacker who goes by the handle “Jordy” was awarded the bounty from Sony for reporting a vulnerability — found using AI — on the PS5 console. The bug was reported to HackerOne, a site that works with companies to plug issues in their products and services. Essentially, Sony pays hackers to find exploits, then pays them money not to release them until the security hole has been patched.

There wouldn’t normally be anything particularly unusual about a hack being reported to Sony — but in the case of this PS5 exploit, a prominent security engineer discovered it months ago but wanted to hold onto it until GTA 6 launched. Then Jordy discovered it with AI and reported it, triggering the controversy.

The exploit in question is a ‘Hypervisor Bug’ that affects the PS5 on firmware from 13.60 up to 14.00. A hypervisor bug is a fault inside the core software or firmware layer, which allows hackers to execute kernel code to, for example, boot Linux on a machine not designed to do it.

You might have seen a spate of headlines about how AI has fueled an explosion of hacks across the internet. Information security experts are calling this month ‘Black October’ due to several major security incidents and vulnerability disclosures prompted by the growing use of artificial intelligence in research.


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