Millions of Android owners warned anyone can bypass your lock screen – update your phone now
The expert even tested it on an up-to-date Pixel 5 to make sure it wasn't an isolated incident and he was still able to pull it off.Apparently someone else had reported it before him but the tech giant still paid Schütz $70,000 for his efforts.
"Even though this bug started out as a not-too-great experience for me, the hacker, after I started “screaming” loudly enough, they noticed, and really wanted correct what went wrong," he said. "Hopefully they treated the original reporter fairly as well. In the end, I think Google did pretty well, although the fix timelime still felt long for me."
A patch for the flaw - officially known as CVE-2022-20465 - was included in the November 5, 2022 security update.
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