What if I were to tell you that there's big money to be made from hacking Facebook and Google, but not necessarily in the way you might imagine? So fa

How To Make $5 Million Hacking Facebook And Google

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2021-09-12 14:30:06

What if I were to tell you that there's big money to be made from hacking Facebook and Google, but not necessarily in the way you might imagine? So far this year, Google hackers have earned more than $3.5 million doing just that. As for Facebook, it made payments of just under $2 million last year.

Bug bounty platforms are the legal route to a profitable hacking career. Both Facebook and Google have recently announced changes to their respective programs and, in so doing, revealed the rewards on offer.

As regular readers and video viewers will know, #STC is a big fan of the Hacking is NOT a Crime movement. The reality is that cybercrime is a crime, and conflating hackers with cybercriminals is both confusing and potentially damaging.

Without hackers, the world would be a much less secure place. Therefore, it's only proper that hackers who find security holes in products and services should be financially rewarded for their right side of the law efforts. Some bug bounty hunters have even become millionaires.

The payments made under the Google vulnerability rewards program (VRP) have varied across the years. Still, they total more than $29 million paid to 2,022 hackers in 84 countries since it launched a decade ago. The biggest single bounty paid to date was in 2019, when one enterprising hacker was awarded $161,000 for discovering an Android security flaw. So far this year, Google has paid out a total of $3,770,000 which is down from the 2020 total of $6,512,000.