Sony Pays $50,000 for the PS5 Hypervisor Bug, Jailbreak Scene Is Not Happy

Sony has seemingly paid a security researcher named Jordy $50,000 for reporting a PS5 hypervisor bug, and it looks like it's the same bug that PS5 Linux developer Andy Nguyen had found earlier and kept to himself. Jordy's HackerOne profile, under the handle 2tonejordy, lists a single resolved PlayStation report worth $50,000, paid through the bug bounty program Sony launched in 2020. He shared the payout on X on October 14, joking that he "can at least buy GTA 6 with this." The jailbreaking community, however, isn't celebrating.

Back in mid-September, Nguyen announced he was walking away from the PS5 scene and his PS5 Linux work, including PS5 Pro support planned for 2027. According to him, he asked the researchers to wait until GTA 6 launched so people could buy the game and still run Linux, and they agreed, only to report it within a day. Jordy's version is a little different. He says he did agree to hold off, but someone else found the same bug with AI a few hours later, so he reported it, and he insists nobody handed him the bug. People were quick to pile on under his post, with one user accusing him of not finding the bug himself. Read full story