Security News > 2021 > November > Sonos, HP, and Canon devices hacked at Pwn2Own Austin 2021
During the first day of Pwn2Own Austin 2021, contestants won $362,500 after exploiting previously unknown security flaws to hack printers, routers, NAS devices, and speakers from Canon, HP, Western Digital, Cisco, Sonos, TP-Link, and NETGEAR. At Pwn2Own Austin, security researchers will target mobile phones, printers, routers, network-attached storage, smart speakers, televisions, external storage, and other devices, all up to date and in their default configuration.
Pwn2Own Austin's consumer-focused event was extended to four days after 22 different contestants registered for 58 total entries.
The DEVCORE and THEORI teams were the ones who earned the highest rewards during the first day of Pwn2Own in Austin.
DEVCORE's Orange Tsai, Angelboy, and Meh Chang won a total of $100,000 after taking over the Sonos One Speaker and the Canon ImageCLASS MF644Cdw and HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M283fdw printers.
The full schedule for Pwn2Own Austin 2021's first day and the results following each challenge are listed here.
Pwn2Own Vancouver 2021 ended with a tie between Team DEVCORE, OV, and Computest's Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade, each of them earning $200,000.