Microsoft paid almost $14M in bounties over the last 12 months

guest · Aug 4, 2020

Microsoft paid almost $14M in bounties over the last 12 months
August 4, 2020
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Microsoft has awarded $13.7 million to security researchers who have reported vulnerabilities over the last 12 months through 15 bug bounty programs, between July 1st, 2019, and June 30th, 2020.

This represents more than three times the amount awarded during the previous year when researchers earned a total of $4.4 million in Microsoft bug bounty awards according to the annual Microsoft Bug Bounty Program retrospective published on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.

"By discovering and reporting vulnerabilities to Microsoft through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD), security researchers have continued to help us secure millions of customers," the company says.
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Programs launched over the last 12 months
In 2020 alone, Microsoft launched two new research grants and six new bug bounty programs, receiving 1,226 eligible vulnerability reports from 327 security researchers located in countries from six continents.
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Microsoft (MSRC Team): Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs Year in Review: $13.7M in Rewards

This year, we launched six new bounty programs and two new research grants, attracting over 1,000 eligible reports from over 300 researchers across 6 continents.

In addition to the new bounty programs, COVID-19 social distancing appears to have had an impact on security researcher activity; across all 15 of our bounty programs we saw strong researcher engagement and higher report volume during the first several months of the pandemic.
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