Hacker known as “Pinkie Pie” produced the first Chrome vulnerability at the Hack In the Box conference on Wednesday. Google established the Pwnium competition as an alternative to Pwn2own contest in order to add the requirement that participants provide details of their exploit. Google will give away up to a total of US$2 million during the event, including US$60,000 cash rewards for the first two winners of the competition. The winner will be the teenage hacker known as Pinkie Pie and Sergey Glazunov.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/10/pinkie-pie-discovered-second-chrome.html