Facebook will pay nearly $ 1 million to find leaks in 2015

Facebook has paid out last year’s $ 936,000 to security researchers who found vulnerabilities in the social network.

More than 200 researchers met together 526 leaks that led to a reward, made Facebook Tuesday released. The number of leaks was moreover submitted more than twenty times higher than the number of accepted reports.

The number of vulnerabilities with a ‘high impact’ that the heaviest present a risk increased by 38 percent to 102. The average pay for finding a leak was $ 1,780 (1575 euros).

Like many other tech companies Facebook has a program that ” bug bounty programs ‘ awry researchers. With cash rewards Facebook would encourage people to report leaks at the company, so they can be resolved.

Facebook says that researchers still submit better reports about vulnerabilities. In addition, one report leads increasingly to solving several similar bugs.