Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties ? Digit
Companies, agencies, institutions, etc
HackerOne
Twitter
Verizon Media Company
Hackers
White-Hat Hackers
RiseWhite
the US Department of Defense
General Motors
Google
GitHub
Nintendo
Lufthansa
Panasonic Avionics
Qualcomm
Starbucks
Dropbox
Intel
Luta Security
Microsoft
level.”HackerOne
the University of St Andrews
the University of Edinburgh
People
Santiago Lopez
Lopez a.k.a @try_to_hack
Katie Moussouris
Marten Mickos
Tucker
become.”Dominique
Groups
Teen
Chinese
German
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
Santiago
Beijing
Tianjin
Dalian
Fujian
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Summary
Teen hacker Santiago Lopez from Argentina has become the world’s first white-hat hacker to earn a million dollars from bug bounties.Lopez a.k.a @try_to_hack (his online moniker) started flagging up security weaknesses to companies via vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform, HackerOne.Since embarking on his legal hacking career in 2015, he has reported more than 1,600 security flaws to organisations, including social media platform Twitter and Verizon Media Company, as well as private corporate and government entities.Inspired by the movie Hackers, Lopez taught himself how to hack watching free online tutorials and reading popular blogs.At the age of 16 he earned his first bounty of $50 and was motivated to continued hacking after school.
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