---
id: 3392
title: "Five years of the GitHub Bug Bounty program"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/five-years-github-bug-bounty-program"
published_at: "2019-02-20T20:30:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "github", "hackerone", "milestone", "legal-protection", "live-hacking"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3392"
lang: en
---

# Five years of the GitHub Bug Bounty program

## Summary

GitHub marked five years of its bug bounty program with $250,000 paid to researchers in 2018. It announced full legal protection, broader reward scope, and higher payouts for the coming year.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2019-02-20T20:30:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/five-years-github-bug-bounty-program
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3392