Google has announced that it awarded over $12M in bounty rewards in 2022 as part of its vulnerability reporting program.
Over 2,900 bugs were tracked in this period.
Google claims that 2022 broke the previous record amount of rewards given.
- In 2021, the tech giant awarded $8.7M, while in 2015, the company awarded $2M.
- The highest amount given to one security researcher was $605,000.
- Researchers from 68 countries participated in the company's vulnerability reporting program.
- Most money was awarded to researchers that found security flaws in Android and Google devices ($4.8M), with Chrome coming in second ($4M).
