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Hacker Hacks Hacking Platform, Gets Paid $20,000 By The Hackers He Hacked

By Davey Winder for Forbes
Friday, December 6, 2019

A HackerOne spokesperson told the BBC that "less than 5% of HackerOne programs were impacted, and those programs were contacted within 24 hours of report receipt."

The security expert view of the HackerOne hacker hack

Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of ImmuniWeb, said that he found it "quite surprising that the security measures, now announced by HackerOne, were not implemented before, given that some of them are of a fundamental and indispensable nature." However, Kolochenko also praised HackerOne for the "rapid and transparent disclosure of the incident," which he said, "serves as a laudable example to others and reminds us once again that humans are the weakest link." Read Full Article


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