Google revealed on Wednesday that it spent 2.9 millions dollars in 2017 as part of its rewarding bug bounty program researchers security for vulnerabilities. Since launching the program in November 2010, Google has said it has paid nearly $ 12 million to various security researchers.
In 2017, Google in the bug bounty of 2017 rewarded a total of 274 researchers and its largest amount of money worth $ 112.500, went to a security researcher to report a chain exploit which could be used to hack Pixel mobile devices.
Google and Android vulnerabilities managed to get $ 1,1 each for 2017, while the rest went to Chrome's vulnerabilities, according to the company's blog post.
Google has also highlighted two other major vulnerabilities that 2017 has discovered:
Researcher “gzobqq” managed to get $100.000 for a chain of bugs in five elements that allowed remote implementation code in Chrome OS, and
Alex Birsan discovered that anyone could have accessed internal Google Issue Tracker data and managed to earn 15.600 dollars.
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