For the last 5 years, Tesla has launched a reward program for errors, and, according to sources familiar with this work, the company has paid hundreds of thousands of rewards to hackers who identified a vulnerability in their systems.
Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) today officially announced the first new year's Pwn2Own hacker festival, which will take place in Canada from the 18th to 20th of March. This time hacker can bypass numerous security levels in Tesla Model 3 will receive half a million dollars from Elon musk.
Between the first level and "secondary" targets someone or group of hackers can potentially get $ 700,000 and a brand new Tesla Model 3.
in addition, Tesla will pay hackers up to an additional 200 thousand dollars for other tasks, for example, 50 thousand will be granted to those who can simply log in to the autopilot system during a reboot or "hack into" infotainment system.
David Lau, Vice President of software for vehicles in Tesla, commented on the company's efforts in the area of protection:
"We design our vehicles with the highest safety standards in all respects, and our work with the community of researchers in the field of security is invaluable ... We look forward to the opportunity to learn about useful work in Pwn2Own and encourage her for what we can continue to improve our products and approach to the design of security systems".
