Pwn2Own Austin has focused on hacking devices and ZDI described it as the largest Pwn2Own to date. White hat hackers earned $362,500 on the first day of the event, $415,000 on the second day, $238,750 on the third day, and $65,000? on the fourth day. Sixty-one bugs were disclosed at the contest — exploits typically chained multiple vulnerabilities — earning participants a total of $1,081,250.

The single highest bounties were paid out for Sonos One smart speaker exploits. Two teams earned $60,000 each for achieving arbitrary code execution and taking control of the device.

For the first time in Pwn2Own history, participants hacked printers — there were 11 successful printer hacks demonstrated at the event, earning researchers nearly $200,000.