RE "The title is misleading, it lead to $120k in investment for his company, it did not 'make him 120k'" I agree, semantically it's not a very accurate title.

RE "The title is misleading, it lead to $120k in investment for his company, it did not 'make him 120k'" I agree, semantically it's not a very accurate title. But actually, I'd say that in the long-run the chain of events that resulted from this hack (i.e. me moving to America and then my startup getting funded etc) has led to me personally benefiting much more than $120k. Essentially it was the main cause to making me millions of dollars. The $120k was just the most quantifiable from the initial hack.