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HackerOne announced that hackers have earned $100 million in bug bounties on the HackerOne platform. From $30,000 paid to hackers across the globe in October 2013 - the first month of bounty payments on HackerOne - to $5.9 million paid to hackers in April 2020, working with hackers has proven to be both a powerful way to pinpoint vulnerabilities across digital assets and more than just a past-time.
HackerOne announced on Wednesday that its bug bounty platform has helped researchers earn more than $100 million since the company started paying hackers in October 2013. The San Francisco-based company reported in late February that it had paid out a total of over $82 million in bounties, $40 million of which was awarded in 2019 alone.
HackerOne, the leading hacker-powered security platform, announced that it became the first and only hacker-powered security platform to achieve Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Tailored Low Impact-Software as a Service Authorization for its full suite of hacker-powered security solutions. FedRAMP is a U.S. federal government program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization and continuous monitoring of cloud products and services to ensure that the proper level of security is in place when government agencies seek to access them.
HackerOne announced on Tuesday that the bug bounty program of Chinese technology giant Tencent is now accessible through its platform. More than 600,000 hackers registered on HackerOne can join Tencent's bug bounty program to hunt for vulnerabilities in the company's products.
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HackerOne announced findings from the 2020 Hacker Report, which reveals that the concept of hacking as a viable career has become a reality, with 18% describing themselves as full-time hackers, searching for vulnerabilities and making the internet safer for everyone. The annual report is a study of the bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure ecosystem, detailing the efforts and motivations of 3,150 hackers from over 120 countries who successfully reported one or more valid security vulnerabilities on HackerOne.
Earlier this month, a hacker who uses the online moniker msdian7 discovered that a new feature introduced by the HackerOne bug bounty platform had resulted in a vulnerability that could have been exploited to obtain any HackerOne user's email address. The vulnerability could have been exploited for malicious purposes through HackerOne's demo programs.
With $40 million in bug bounties paid in 2019, hacker-powered bug bounty platform HackerOne nearly doubled the amount paid out in all previous years combined, reaching $82 million. HackerOne also announced that a total of seven hackers surpassed $1 million in lifetime earnings, thirteen more hitting $500,000 in lifetime earnings, and 146 hackers earning $100,000.
Through partnership with the Defense Digital Service, the U.S. Department of Defense and HackerOne, the number one hacker-powered pentesting and bug bounty platform, announced the results of the second Army bug bounty program, 'Hack the Army 2.0'. Fifty-two trusted hackers participated in the Hack the Army 2.0 bug bounty challenge, reporting 146 valid vulnerabilities over the course of five-weeks.
In an embarrassing twist, bug bounty platform HackerOne has paid a $20,000 reward to a researcher who reported a security flaw inadvertently caused by one of its staff during… a bug submission.