Google paid $6.5m in bug bounties in 2019

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Google paid one security researcher $201,337 in the biggest single bug bounty reward in 2019

Google paid out more than $6.5 million to security researchers last year for reporting vulnerabilities via the company's Vulnerability Reward Programme (VRP). The amount is almost double the pre...

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