Yuri Milner invested $ 25 million in a social network for "noble hackers"

Yuri Milner and his partners invested about $ 25 million in the platform for the “good hackers” HackerOne . Users of this social network use their own knowledge and experience to detect vulnerabilities on the websites of various companies, reports Roem. As a reward, hackers receive cash payments of various volumes for each problem found.

In addition to Milner, NEA, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, CEO Yelp Jeremy Stoppelman, Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff and some other investors have invested in the platform. The total investment amounted to about $ 34 million.

As for the platform, with its help more than 10 thousand vulnerabilities were discovered and closed. And the amount of payments to information security specialists (this term is quite applicable here) amounted to about $ 3 million. The service station’s company, Alex Rice, reported this.
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Currently, customers include HackerOne Twitter, Slack, Adobe, Yahoo and Airbnb. The company also uses VKontakte, Mail.ru and Qiwi.