Microsoft he said program bug bounty to improve the security of Microsoft Edge stating that it is willing to pay up to $15.000 to hackers who find weaknesses that allow remote access to the application's code.
Additionally, if someone discovers a flaw that is already known internally to Microsoft, the first person to report it gets $1.500, according to the company, but only as long as the vulnerability can be reproduced from the latest version of Windows Insider preview builds released through the Slow Ring.
The bug bounty program for Microsoft Edge was launched on August 4 and will last until May 15 of 2017, and besides Edge, it also includes chakra open source segments of the browser engine.