Bug Bounty Reports Discussed

Accidentally finding a $50,000 vulnerability - Augusto Zanellato - Bug Bounty Reports Discussed #2

Bug Bounty Reports Discussed

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This podcast is an interview with Augusto Zanellato, the hacker who submitted report with a GitHub rest API token leaked which had access to Shopify's Github account. It was reported on Hackerone to Shopify and Augusto got $50,000 for it. The best thing is that he didn't even look for a security issue.

Link to the report explained: https://youtu.be/TOgIgD0KUVs The report on Hackerone: https://hackerone.com/reports/1087489 Subscribe to Bug Bounty Reports Explained on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BugBountyReportsExplained/

Augusto's media: https://twitter.com/auguzanellato https://hackerone.com/augustozanellato?type=user https://github.com/augustozanellato

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