Security News > 2020 > December > Hacker earns $2 million in bug bounties on HackerOne

Inhibitor181 is the first bug bounty hunter to earn more than $2,000,000 in bounty awards through the vulnerability coordination and bug bounty program HackerOne.

HackerOne says that, so far, only 9 bug bounty hunters have earned $1 million on the platform, with Jon Colston being the ninth hacker to reach this goal after reporting over 170 vulnerabilities in government and enterprise organizations.

Since they started helping hackers report vulnerability reports to bug bounty programs, HackerOne hackers have found approximately 170,000 security bugs according to the company's CEO Mårten Mickos.

More than 700,000 ethical hackers are now using the bug bounty platform to get paid for finding and reporting security bugs in the products of almost 2,000 HackerOne customers.

12% of HackerOne hackers make over $20,000 each year only from bug bounties, while 1,1% will earn rewards worth over $350,000 annually and 3% over $100,000 per year.

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