Security News > 2020 > October > Facebook Debuts Bug-Bounty ‘Loyalty Program’

Facebook has lifted the curtain on what it claims is an industry first: A loyalty program as part of its bug-bounty offering, which aims to further incentivize researchers to find vulnerabilities in its platform.

The loyalty program, called "Hacker Plus," offers bonuses on top of bounty awards, access to more products and features that researchers can stress-test, and invites to Facebook annual events.

For its part, Facebook continues to flesh out its bug-bounty offerings for the security research community.

In 2018, Facebook said it will expand its bug-bounty program in an attempt to crackdown on data misuse by third-party app developers.

More recently, this past year, Facebook awarded a security researcher $20,000 for discovering a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Facebook Login SDK, which is used by developers to add a "Continue with Facebook" button to a page as an authentication method.

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