Facebook’s Bug Bounty Program Pays Out $936K in 2015
Facebook received fewer bug submissions in 2015 than in 2014, but the social network was alerted to more high-impact bugs.
Facebook received fewer bug submissions in 2015 than in 2014, but the social network was alerted to more high-impact bugs.
Security engineer Reginaldo Silva—himself a former awardee of the social network’s bug bounty program—released the program’s 2015 statistics in a note.
Silva wrote that since the creation of Facebook’s bug bounty program in 2011, more than 2,400 valid submissions have been received, with over $4.3 million awarded to more than 800 researchers globally.
As for 2015, Silva said:
- A total of 13,233 submissions were received from 5,543 researchers in 127 countries.
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