PIXEL
HACKED
By Siddharth Bhandary
But this new phone got hacked within 60 seconds
by a Chinese team called as Qihoo 360. At a hacking
competition in Seoul, South Korea called PwnFest
the team of Qihoo 360 had demonstrated an exploit
in Pixel, which made them to easily hack the mobile
in a minute. The team had launched an exploit that
had launched Google Play store and Google chrome
which displayed a message that read “Pwned by 360
Alpha Team”.
This made Google to give Qihoo 360 a cash prize of
$120,000 for the hack. This has made Google make a
patch for this vulnerability. Qihoo 360 had received
a total cash prize of $520,000 as they had also found
exploits in Adobe Flash and in Microsoft Edge.