Italian hacker Luca Todesco confirms jailbreaking PS4 firmware 4.50/4.55

Sony PS4 firmware 4.5x has been jailbroken using webkit exploit.

Sony PS4
Sony PS4 firmware 4.5x has been jailbroken using webkit exploit

Prolific Italian hacker Luca Todesco aka 'qwertyoruiop' has announced his successful root aka jailbreak on Sony PS4's latest firmware (v4.50 and v4.55). Todesco has returned to the spotlight after a long break from the iOS jailbreak scene as he recently announced giving up all further attempts on jailbreaking iOS 10 or releasing its public version.

Luca Todesco aka qwertyoruiop
Italian hacker Luca Todesco confirms jailbreaking PS4 firmware 4.50/4.55 via Twitter Twitter

In his recent tweet, Todesco revealed his new feat of successfully jailbreaking PS4 on firmware v4.50 and v4.55. If the past is any indication, the hacker is unlikely to release the public version of the jailbreak for Sony's latest gaming console and instead use it for self-appeasement and research purpose only.

The new PS4 jailbreak is touted to be based on webkit vulnerability, but it's also expected to work fine with the Kernel exploit.

Luca Todesco aka qwertyoruiop
Twitter

It may be recalled that another prominent iOS hacker George Hotz aka Geohot had earlier accomplished a similar feat with root access on Sony's PS3. He was later forced to battle a legal case pursued by the Japanese company, opposing his move to expose the security loopholes on the gaming console.

Although the court case was eventually settled, the jailbreak community is now more careful about indulging in a legal wrangle with tech giants like Sony.

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