A surprising number of computer hackers earn over $100,000 a year
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Aug 19, 2017, 22:24 IST
According to a survey of 617 successful hackers by HackerOne, half of them earn more than $35,000 a year on bug bounties. Nearly 11% are making over $50,000, and 6% are making more than $100,000 per year.
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Successful hackers are young too. Almost all of them are under age 35.
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And while most of them say that they hack for the money, and for fun, over 50% said that they also find these bugs just to help the world fight the bad guys.
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