DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7,000 Romo robovacs

The DJI Romo robot vacuums. | Image: DJI

On Valentine's Day, I brought you a communicative that's since made headlines each astir the world: How 1 man, conscionable trying to steer his DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation gamepad, discovered an full web of 7,000 remote-control DJI robots acceptable to fto him peek into different people's homes.

To beryllium clear, DJI had already begun addressing immoderate of the related vulnerabilities earlier the man, Sammy Azdoufal, showed The Verge conscionable however overmuch helium could access. But it wasn't wide whether DJI would wage him for his discovery, peculiarly aft how it treated information researcher Kevin Finisterre backmost successful 2017 - oregon however soon DJI mightiness afloat spot the additiona …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.