Six ethical hackers become millionaires reporting bugs via the HackerOne platform

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The platform has awarded $21 million to hackers in the year for finding and reporting security bugs

Six ethical hackers have become millionaires by finding security flaws and reporting them via the bug bounty programmes managed by HackerOne. In a blog post, HackerOne revealed that almost 5,000...

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