TL;DR —
Facebook paid out $880,000 in bug bounties in 2017. Whitehat hackers uncover cybersecurity vulnerabilities, document them, and then share that information with the company in exchange for a reward. The issue was reproduced by their security team with ease, and had meaningful impact on user’s privacy. I hope this write-up inspires people not to overlook small issues while. scrolling aimlessly through Facebook, and also while testing it, as I was excited that I had found a security issue on Facebook again!
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