Canadian Guy Has Earned $4 Million as an Ethical Hacker

A post on Linkedin…

Congratulations Eric Head for reaching $4 million in bounty payouts!

The post is by HackerOne, a website where companies like Facebook and PayPal can hire hackers to find security vulnerabilities 🧐

A hacker who identifies a vulnerability gets paid a bounty.

Eric’s HackerOne profile shows he’s been on the platform since 2015.

And that $4 million announcement came about a year ago, around the same time as this story…

• Hackers Have Earned More Than $300 Million on the HackerOne Platform

Crunching the numbers, Eric has earned about $450,000 per year / $35,000 per month since joining HackerOne 🤑

He said in a 2019 interview on YouTube…

I got into hacking when my daughter was born

I assume he was coding long before that, though his LinkedIn suggests he’s self-taught.

If you’re into coding or eager to learn, keep ethical hacking in mind as a way to make money 👍

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