This Dark Market Wants to Pay You Bitcoin to Find Security Bugs
Bug bounty hunters could make as much as 10 bitcoins identifying security problems at the popular dark marketplace Hansa. Taking a page from leading tech companies which offer cash rewards to developers that spot code issues, administrators for the market announced last week that it would pay 10 BTC for "vulnerabilities that could severely disrupt HANSA's integrity". The program was first reported by CyberScoop. For bugs that aren’t as critical, admins said they would offer 1 BTC, with 0.05 BTC being put up for display issues and other minor problems. There are rules for the....
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