
Google has remunerated a Uruguayan adolescent a ” bug bounty ” of more than $36,000 for unveiling a serious security blemish.
Ezequiel Pereira’s sporadic jabbing around has at last paid off bigly: Google just granted the Uruguayan adolescent $36,337 for finding a defenselessness that would have enabled him to roll out improvements to inward organization frameworks, CNBC provided details regarding Saturday.
“I found something almost immediately that was worth $500, and it just felt so amazing. So, I decided to just keep trying ever since then,” Pereira was quoted as saying by CNBC.
“It feels really good – I’m glad that I found something that was so important,” he added.
In spite of the fact that, Pereira found the bug not long ago, he just barely motivated authorization to expound on how he found it this week, after Google affirmed that it had settled the issue, the report said.
It denotes Pereira’s fifth acknowledged bug, however it’s by a wide margin his generally lucrative.
Pereira was about a month short of 17 when he initially got paid for uncovering a Google security blemish through its bug abundance program.
Pereira got his first PC when he was 10, took an underlying programming class when he was 11 and after that invested years showing himself diverse coding dialects and procedures.
In 2016, Google flew him to its California home office after he won a coding challenge.