For the first time, an ethical hacker has made $ 2 million on the bug bounty platform HackerOne. The Romanian Cosmin Iordache or inhibitor181 managed to earn $ 300,000 in the past three months, reaching the milestone.
HackerOne congratulates the bug bounty hunter on Twitter. Iordache found a total of 468 vulnerabilities in companies and passed them on via HackerOne. These are bugs at large companies such as PayPal, Facebook and GitHub. The rewards he earned came only through HackerOne, and not from bounties outside that platform, but it is not known how often the hacker independently reports vulnerabilities. Iordache earned two million dollars, about 1.64 million euros.
The ethical hacker, known on HackerOne as inhibitor181, was already high in the rankings of hackers with the most bounties to their name. Last year, he also became the seventh hacker on the platform to earn more than a million dollars. Iordache made $ 300,000 in bug bounties alone in the last 90 days, or about $ 246,000.