So this year at Pwn2Own 2011, it looks like the BlackBerry Torch 9800′s webkit browser has been hacked by three guys – Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers and Ralf Philipp Weinmann.  So yes the webkit browser was hacked, and what did they get out of that? The three were able to steal the contact list and image data base of the device.  Iozzo and Weinmann won last year’s award by hacking the iPhone, so I guess the BlackBerry was next on the list.

Is RIM going to release and update to fix this?

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