The reward for reporting the bug depends upon the extremity of the reported vulnerability.
John Abma is doing same by reporting bugs to various companies and is earning whopping amount every month.
He has been hacking into computers since he was 13.
He was supported by his best friend Michiel Prins who is also the cofounder of HackerOne.
These two friends acquired control of the TV station and presented their own broadcast on live TV.
The TV station was not amused, Abma tellsBusiness Insider.
Internet service provider of Abma also noticed that the duo were very good in hacking.
My parents were like, We dont have a virus.
We have a son,' says Abma.
The two friends attended college together at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.
They discovered a flaw in the software that handled grades of the students.
The university then contacted the software company and later it was resolved.
We made so much money on that contract that we could pay for our college tuition, he says.
We were going to college and at the same time working for the university.
Hanze University loved their work andpublishedtheir research.
However, initially they were not getting good customers and it was a struggle for them.
That was a very exciting time.
We were 19 and 20 years old.
And we were making roughly $10,000 a week just the two of us, he says.
For two college kids, that was a very large amount of money.
