Ultimately, he was found the winner of Zeriodium's bug bounty. Apple devices are generally considered by security experts to be more secure, and difficult to hack. But difficult doesn't mean impossible.
Over the weekend, someone managed to prove that it is possible to hack at least one of these Apple devices: the iPhone.
The hack came after a bug bounty challenge issued in September by startup Zeriodium, which offered one million dollars for “an exclusive, browser-based, untethered jailbreak for Apple’s latest iOS” and expired on October 31.
To win the money, someone had to deliver to Zerodium an exploit capable of working through a browser (Safari or Chrome) or through a text or multimedia message.
After payment, Zerodium will have full rights and the ability to install it wherever it wants.
This method is quite complicated for many reasons. The last time we saw such a jailbreak was with iOS 7.
Zerodium has not yet announced the name of the individual or team that won the one million dollar prize.
Our iOS #0day bounty has expired & we have one winning team who made a remote browser-based iOS 9.1/9.2b #jailbreak (untethered). Congratulations!
— Zerodium (@Zerodium) November 2, 2015
