Drone maker DJI will pay $30,000 to a researcher who discovered major security flaws in its robot vacuums. The vulnerabilities allowed remote access to thousands of devices, raising privacy concerns.

Reports confirmed that DJI has officially compensated software engineer Sammy Azdoufal for discovering a catastrophic backend vulnerability in the DJI Romo robot vacuum.

Software engineer Sammy Azdoufal only wanted to connect his DJI robot vacuum cleaner to a PlayStation 5 controller.

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