Social media major Facebook has this habit of rewarding the researchers who point the potential bugs on its website. According to that, Facebook so far has paid Rs 4.84 crore to security researchers in India as part of its bug bounty programme. This is by far the most paid till date by Facebook.
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Facebook also revealed that India holds top rank among 127 countries in terms of researchers contributing to its bug bounty programme. Incidentally, India houses more over 142 million Facebook users, one of the highest for Facebook. Since its launch in 2011, Facebook’s bug bounty programme has received over 2,400 valid submissions.
The social networking major has awarded more than $4.3 million to 800-plus researchers globally. These are the security bugs ignored by Facebook’s in-house team but were later identified as vulnerabilities in Facebook’s services or infrastructure that can create security or privacy risks.
