---
id: 2107
title: "Bugcrowd pays out a half million dollars to whitehat hackers in one week!"
source_domain: bugcrowd.com
source_url: "https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/bugcrowd-pays-out-a-half-million-dollars-to-whitehat-hackers-in-one-week/"
published_at: "2019-11-08T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "community", "bugcrowd", "crowdsourced-security", "vulnerability-disclosure", "hackers", "milestone", "researcher-rewards", "payouts", "industry-growth", "whitehat-hackers"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2107"
lang: en
---

# Bugcrowd pays out a half million dollars to whitehat hackers in one week!

## Summary

Bugcrowd paid out over $500,000 to whitehat hackers in a single week, with October totaling $1.6 million across more than 550 researchers and 300 P1 findings — an 80% year-over-year payout increase.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bugcrowd.com
- **Published:** 2019-11-08T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/bugcrowd-pays-out-a-half-million-dollars-to-whitehat-hackers-in-one-week/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2107