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Aurora pays $6 mn bug bounty to ethical hacker

Posted on June 8, 2022 by Dissent

Shashank Bhardwaj reports:

Aurora, the bridging and scaling solution for Ethereum (ETH), announced on Tuesday that it had given a $6 million bug bounty to an ethical security hacker by the name of pwning.eth for discovering a critical vulnerability in the Aurora Engine.

The bounty was paid by Aurora in collaboration with Immunefi, which is a well-known platform for Web3 bug bounties. The platform has over $145 million in bug bounties available and has paid $45 million worth of bounties. The exploit had brought under risk user funds worth $200 million.

Read more at Forbes India.
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