FaceBook Awards 1000$ To young Boy From India

Today web security is a big problem for many internet giant companies. So to overcome security issues, many companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple had introduced bug bounty programs.
Harsha vardhan Boppana youngster based in Hyderabad is awarded by 1000$ as bounty and white hat by the bounty program of Facebook.

Harsha Vardhan is studying B.tech in Electronics from Vignan University, Althrough he is studying in Electronics, He has interest towards finding vulnerabilities.

Our Conversation with Harsha Vardhan Boppana

Here is an extraction of the conversation between Harsha Vardhan Boppana and our website.

How you came to know about this program?

I came to know about this program from news.

What kind of message (Technical/ Non-technical) you sent?

I sent message along with technical details including the reason behind occurrence of this security vulnerability, with a source URL of vulnerability.

What is the process and how much time it takes?

Once we report issue their security team analyzes the bug and takes decision for approval. Once it’s approved, their engineers start fixing issue. And after it they pay bounty.

It would take about 10 days to 1 month of bug approval. Then they email a form. Once we mail form, they pay bounty. This procedure may takes 2 to 3 months.

What reward you get, and how they made payment?

Usually they gives bounty 500$, i had reported 2 bugs. So i got 1000$ as bounty.

Either they make payment via Paypal or issues a Black Card [Prepaid Debit Card ]. But now a days, they only issue Black Card.

You can contact Harsha Vardhan Boppana at harsha9502@gmail.com"

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