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Google paid out over $10 million in bug bounties throughout 2023

Google’s Vulnerability Reward Program paid out a whopping $10 million to over 600 researchers for bug bounties in 2023. In...

In a post the Google Online Security Blog’s “Year in Review”, the Mountain View firm detailed the specifics of this sizeable sum. Chrome bug bounties added up to another sizeable $2.1 million for Google in 2023, accounting for 359 unique reports within the web browser. The result was fewer long-standing problems and reports of issues but the resolution of a V8 JIT optimization bug that has been around since Chrome M91 released back in May 2021.

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