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> Most ethical hackers will remember the 2013 case of Robert Kugler, the 17-year old German student who was shafted out of a huge bounty after he discovered a c
by ryanlol 7y ago
> Most ethical hackers will remember the 2013 case of Robert Kugler, the 17-year old German student who was shafted out of a huge bounty after he discovered a critical bug on PayPal’s site. Kugler notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19, but apparently PayPal told him that because he was under 18, he was ineligible for the Bug Bounty Program.
>But according to PayPal, the bug had already been discovered by someone else, but they also admitted that the young hacker was just too young.
Bad PR like this shows that bug bounty programs are probably more trouble than they’re worth.