Apple company will pay up to one million dollars to anyone who hacks their artificial intelligence cloud.
Apple has just released an announcement stating that they mean business when it comes to maintaining the security of Apple Intelligence. The company is offering a huge reward of up to a million dollars for anyone who can hack into their Private Cloud Compute, which handles tasks for Apple Intelligence when the on-device AI capabilities are not sufficient – but there are downsides, which is why Apple’s mission of crushing bugs seems like a good idea.
According to a recent post by the Apple Security blog, Apple has created a virtual testing environment and opened the doors to the public to allow everyone to take a peek at the code and assess its security. PCC was initially only available to a group of researchers and security auditors, but now, anyone can try to hack into Apple’s private artificial intelligence cloud.
It is said that many of Apple Intelligence’s tasks are performed on the device, but for more complex requests, PCC intervenes. Apple provides comprehensive encryption and makes data available only to the user to ensure that your requests remain as they are. That — private. However, with sensitive data like what artificial intelligence deals with, whether on Mac or iPhone devices, users have the right to be concerned about the possibility of their data leaving their devices and ending up in the wrong hands.
This is partially supposed to be why Apple is now reaching out to anyone interested and offering up to a million dollars for hacking into the private cloud computing. The company provides access to the source code of some of the most critical parts of PCC, allowing researchers to search for flaws in it.
The million-dollar reward is not universal. This is the top reward for the person or team who can successfully run malicious code on PCC servers. The next reward is $250,000 and covers exploitation operations that could allow infiltrators to extract user data from Apple’s private artificial intelligence cloud. There are also smaller rewards, starting at $150,000, which will be paid to anyone who gains access to user data from a “distinguished network site.”
Apple’s bug bounty program has previously helped in discovering vulnerabilities with rewards for participating researchers. Two years ago, Apple paid a student $100,000 for successfully hacking a Mac device. Let’s hope that if there are any bugs to be found in Apple’s private artificial intelligence cloud, they will be discovered before Apple Intelligence becomes widely available.
