More than 100,000 hackers now make a career as bounty hunters, claims HackerOne

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One-fifth of HackerOne's hackers are full-time bounty hunters - while for others, it's a route into lucrative new IT roles

Hacking as a full-time career is now supporting more than 100,000 bug bounty hunters, with 18 per cent of the contributors to the HackerOne platform claiming to be full-time employed searching for ...

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