This is the first hacker into millionaires thanks to hunting bonuses from security errors and he is only 19 years old

Santiago Lopez-nickname hacker is "@try_to_hack", the 19-year-old Argentinian is the first white-hat hacker in the world to earn $ 1 million thanks to hunting bonuses from the security holes of major technology companies. on the world.

The amazing thing is that Lopez is a white-hat hacker by learning how to hack himself through watching free online tutorials, researching blogs about hacking and not going through any school.

Lopez started becoming a white hat hacker from 2015 through the HackerOne bonus hunting platform. Since then, Lopez has discovered and reported more than 1,600 security bugs for organizations, from private businesses, Twitter social networking platforms to government.

The first bonus Lopez earned is $ 50. Although this is only a small amount of money but motivated him then 16 years old continue to pursue his dream of becoming a white hat hacker. Currently, Lopez is a full-time hacker, the bonus he earns by hunting security holes nearly 40 times higher than the salary of an average software engineer in Buenos Aires.

Now that companies and organizations make a bonus to a hacker after they announce a security weakness to the company, it is a common way for them to identify vulnerabilities that can make them an item. target of network attacks.

HackerOne's latest report showed that the bonus hunting platform paid more than $ 42 million to hackers with 93,000 vulnerabilities discovered. In 2017, white-hat hackers earned a total of 9.3 million USD and this figure increased to 19 million USD in 2018.