---
id: 3387
title: "@try_to_hack Makes History as First Bug Bounty Hacker to Earn over $1 Million"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/trytohack-makes-history-first-bug-bounty-hacker-earn-over-1-million"
published_at: "2019-03-01T08:00:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "crowdsourced-security", "hackerone", "milestone", "researcher-spotlight", "try-to-hack"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3387"
lang: en
---

# @try_to_hack Makes History as First Bug Bounty Hacker to Earn over $1 Million

## Summary

Nineteen-year-old Argentine hacker Santiago (@try_to_hack) becomes the first to earn $1 million in HackerOne bounties with 1,670-plus vulnerabilities reported to Twitter, Verizon Media and others.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2019-03-01T08:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/trytohack-makes-history-first-bug-bounty-hacker-earn-over-1-million
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3387