Hackers Awarded More Than $275,000 for Surfacing Over 145 Security Vulnerabilities in Second ‘Hack the Army’ Challenge with HackerOne
Summary
The bug bounty challenge ran from October 9, 2019 to November 15, 2019 with more than 60 publicly accessible web assets, including *.army.mil, *.goarmy.mil, and the Arlington Cemetery website for the first time. On November 20, the challenge culminated in an awards ceremony in Augusta, Georgia where the top three hackers — @alyssa_herrera, @erbbysam, and @cdl — were rewarded for their contributions. In addition to the presentation of awards, the event included a panel where the hackers shared their experience in the program and educational breakout sessions with the Department of Defense cyberdefense teams. HackerOne is the #1 hacker-powered pentest & bug bounty platform, helping organizations find and fix critical vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. With more than 1,700 customer programs, including The U.S. Department of Defense, General Motors, Google, Goldman Sachs, PayPal, Hyatt, Twitter, GitHub, Nintendo, Lufthansa, Microsoft, MINDEF Singapore, Panasonic Avionics, Qualcomm, Starbucks, Dropbox, Intel, HackerOne has helped to find over 148,000 vulnerabilities and award more than $79M in bug bounties to a growing community of over 600,000 hackers.
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