Tech companies may boast of the most secure systems in their devices but hackers somehow and sometimes just find a way to get past them. This was proven yet again at a hacking contest when two hackers breached devices from Sony Samsung and others and earned a whopping $145,000 (roughly Rs 1.02 crore) in the process.According to a report by Android Police, at the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Tokyo, Team Fluoroacetate, “comprising of members Amat Cama and Richard Zhu” showed their prowess and vulnerabilities in numerous devices. The report states that the two ‘white-hat’ hackers first targeted Sony’s X800G smart TV. “Using a Javascript OOB Read bug to exploit the television’s built-in web browser, the team gained control of the device to earn $15K.”The next device which they hit was the Amazon Echo Show 5. The duo used an integer overflow to ‘compromise’ the Amazon smart speaker and this earned them about $60,000.The two Samsung devices that they hacked were the Galaxy S10 smartphone and Q60 smart TV which got them a bug bounty of $45,000. The Xiaomi phone that the duo targeted was the Mi 9 and earned them a ‘reward’ of $20,000.The contest is an annual affair and has been held since 2007. The idea behind the contest is to show the vulnerabilities in devices or software. The bugs and flaws that are found during the competition are handed over to organisers who further pass them on to the respective companies. Contestants earn money for successfully hacking devices and at the end of the contest a winner is declared.Bug bounty programs are offered by almost every big tech company. Be it Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, Amazon, all companies run a bug bounty program under which they offer rewards to hackers for breaching or reporting vulnerabilities in their products and services.