19-year-old Santiago Lopez from Buenos Aires became the first person to earn more than $ 1 million in rewards from HackerOne, the world's largest ethical breakthrough platform, The Argentine teenager's story suggests that investigating the security vulnerabilities code in technical programs can be a good way to profit.

Lopez said: I feel incredibly proud to see my work recognized for its value, not only for the money I have earned, but because this achievement represents a protection of corporate information. And for people they are safer than they were in the past. He added that he fully taught himself and only started working commercially when he joined HackerOne in 2015.

He was working under the pseudonym try_to_hack, got his first profit and was $ 50 in exchange for software glitches that could lead to cross-site counterfeiting attacks (CSRF). < / p>

and about his attempts, after looking for more than 1670 weaknesses in the code in the services of companies like Verizon, Twitter and WordPress. The disclosure contained a defect that enabled SSRF attacks, resulting in Lopez receiving his biggest cash reward of $ 9,000. He is active after the school day.

He said: What concerns me more than looking for errors is finding the largest possible number of errors in a short period of time and trying to earn good rewards for it. I know they say quality before quantity, but quantity is what matters most to me.


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