Less than 25 years old became a millionaire by hunting bugs for bonuses

In the minds of many people, hackers are bad guys who often plug their faces into computers, type crazy keyboards to steal certain secrets on the Internet. However, in reality, not every hacker is a criminal.

There is a hacking force hired by companies to attack their security systems to detect vulnerabilities to fix them. And of course, if successful these hackers will be paid with money. Apple recently launched a 'bug bounty hunting' program with a $ 1 million bonus for anyone who can use a specific hack to hack into an iPhone.

Nathaniel Wakelam, 24, living in Thailand and Santiago Lopez, 19, living in Argentina are two young hackers who became millionaires by hunting bounties.

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Nathaniel Wakelam, 24, born in Australia and currently settling in Thailand. As a teenager, Wakelam used to hack games to give himself an advantage over rivals. Specifically, this guy has found and exploited holes in the game to move into restricted map areas, doubling the earned gold .

As a student, Wakelam joined Yahoo's bug bounty program and quickly earned $ 60,000 in bonuses. Since then, he has decided to turn finding a hole into his full-time job.

Currently, Wakelam is the information security director at a security consulting firm with partners such as big companies like Verizon and Riot Games, the game development company behind the famous game Union. legendary.

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In February of this year, 19-year-old Santiago Lopez officially became a millionaire thanks to error-finding bonuses.

Lopez started hacking at the age of 15. At 16, he earned his first $ 50 in bug bounty. Lopez later signed with HackerOne, a bug bounty platform.

Lopez shared that he realized that hacking computers in an ethical way could help him earn a lot of money because many leading organizations and technology companies are willing to pay. very high for the holes. Instead of public bug bounty programs, this guy mainly makes money through challenging personal tasks.

Every day, Lopez usually spend about 6, 7 hours to hack. So this is almost a full-time job like any other normal job. Whenever finding an error, Lopez achieves a great feeling.

This job helped Lopez earn the money to buy a house on the beach and two cars (Peugeot RCZ and Mini Cooper).

1. Victims hacked hackers' servers when they were caught paying ransom, rescuing thousands of other victims
2. Just 5 minutes, hackers make 'ATM automatically release money', no password needed, no transaction record on the system