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DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7,000 Romo robovacs
- Sean Hollister
- March 7, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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The DJI Romo robot vacuums. | Image: DJI
On Valentine's Day, I brought you a story that's since made headlines all around the world: How one man, just trying to steer his DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation gamepad, discovered an entire network of 7,000 remote-control DJI robots ready to let him peek into other people's homes.
To be clear, DJI had already begun addressing some of the related vulnerabilities before the man, Sammy Azdoufal, showed The Verge just how much he could access. But it wasn't clear whether DJI would pay him for his discovery, particularly after how it treated security researcher Kevin Finisterre back in 2017 - or how soon DJI might fully patch the additiona …
Originally published at The Verge