Rogue HackerOne employee steals bug reports to sell on the side

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rogue-hackerone-employee-steals-bug-reports-to-sell-on-the-side/

A HackerOne employee stole vulnerability reports submitted through the bug bounty platform and disclosed them to affected customers to claim financial rewards.

The rogue worker had contacted about half a dozen HackerOne customers and collected bounties “in a handful of disclosures,” the company said on Friday.

HackerOne is a platform for coordinating vulnerability disclosures and intermediating monetary rewards for the bug hunter submitting the security reports.

HackerOne notes that its former employee had used “threatening” and “intimidating” language in their interaction with customers and urged customers to contact the company if they received disclosures made in an aggressive tone.

The company says that “in the vast majority of cases” it has no evidence of vulnerability data having been misused. However, customers that had reports accessed by the inside threat actor, either for nefarious or legitimate purposes, have been informed individually of dates and times of access for each vulnerability disclosure.

Rogue HackerOne employee steals bug reports to sell on the side

A HackerOne employee stole vulnerability reports submitted through the bug bounty platform and disclosed them to affected customers to claim financial rewards.

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