Security News > 2020 > June > Sony Launches PlayStation Bug Bounty Program on HackerOne
Sony this week announced the launch of a public PlayStation bug bounty program in partnership with hacker-sourced vulnerability hunting platform HackerOne.
Previously, the company ran a private bug bounty with some researchers only, but says that it has come to realize that the research community plays an important role in improving security, and that the newly launched program builds on that realization.
"We believe that through working with the security research community we can deliver a safer place to play. We have partnered with HackerOne to help run this program, and we are inviting the security research community, gamers, and anyone else to test the security of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Network," the company says.
"PlayStation will determine, in its sole discretion, whether a bounty will be awarded. Reward amounts will differ based on vulnerability severity, as well as the quality of the report. Sony will only award a bounty to the first researcher to have reported a previously unreported, vulnerability," HackerOne explains.
PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PS Vita and PSP or any other hardware, other domains than those mentioned above, corporate IT infrastructure, open source software vulnerabilities public for less than 7 days, and third-party games and applications are not in the scope of the program.