A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website.Robert Kugler said he notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19. He said he was informed by email that because he is under 18 years old, he did not qualify for its Bug Bounty Program.
Many companies such as Google and Facebook have reward programs. The programs are intended to create an incentive for website users to report problems and create fixes before hackers can take advantage.
Google pays from $100 up to $20,000 depending on the severity of the issue and Facebook pays a minimum of $500 for qualifying bugs. Neither company has age restrictions listed on their websites.
Robert Kugler is a German student who has found bugs for companies like Microsoft and Mozilla in the past. His work on uncovering problems in Mozilla’s Firefox browser has earned him about $4,500 over the past two years.On PayPal’s website, the company lists the terms for rewarding people who find bugs, but mentions nothing about the age of the discoverer. One of the stipulations for PayPal’s program is that the finder have a PayPal account that money can be transferred in to.
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