You Can Now Collect $50,000 Bounty by Finding Critical Bugs in Sony PlayStation 4

Japanese electronics giant Sony has just announced the launch of the PlayStation Bug Bounty program.

The initiative was possible because of its partnership with San Francisco-based cybersecurity company HackerOne. 

$50,000 per one bug

After testing the waters with HackerOne for half a year, Sony has now made the program public.    

Sony will offer rewards of up to $50,000 for games or security researches who will be able to find critical vulnerabilities in PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Network. PlayStation 3 and other older devices will not be supported. 

For comparison, Microsoft started paying up to $20,000 per Xbox bug back in January. 

Both Sony and Microsoft award bug hunters with $500 for fixing low-level vulnerabilities. 

$100 mln worth of bounties

As reported by U.Today, Facebook partnered with HackerOne to launch a bug bounty program for the Libra cryptocurrency. 

At the end of May, HackerOne made an announcement about awarding white hat hackers with more $100 mln worth of rewards.

It is estimated to pay its users about $6,000 every hour for finding bugs.