A Whistledown Exclusive: Netflix’s Journey to One Million in Bug Bounty and Beyond
At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world, and with over 270 million subscribers, ensuring a secure experience is crucial. Since launching our bounty program in 2016, we’ve worked diligently to protect our users by discovering and addressing potential vulnerabilities. Today, we’re excited to announce a significant milestone: the Netflix bug bounty program has now paid over One Million USD ($1,000,000) in rewards.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our researchers and their invaluable contributions that made this possible. Their efforts have significantly strengthened Netflix’s security posture.
We view our relationship with the security research community as a partnership with a shared goal of securing Netflix. Therefore, we’ve crafted our processes to align with the core values researchers appreciate in a bug bounty program:
We also ensure that the bounty reflects the full impact of identified vulnerabilities and reward a bounty or points when we make a risk-impacting change, even if they don’t directly qualify under our standard rewards criteria.
