Apple Employee Discovers Zero-Day Vulnerability, Fails to Report to Google

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Apple Employee Discovers Zero-Day Vulnerability, Fails to Report to Google
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An Apple employee participating in a Capture The Flag (CTF) hacking competition discovered a zero-day bug in Google Chrome but did not report it. The bug was eventually reported by someone else who participated in the competition but did not find the bug themselves. The circumstances surrounding the bug's discovery and reporting are unclear. Google fixed the bug and awarded a bug bounty to the person who reported it, who was not the original discoverer. Apple has not commented on the situation.

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