<ul><li>Facebook paid $100,000 to a researcher for discovering a bug that granted him command access to an internal server in October 2024.</li><li>Security researcher Ben Sadeghipour found a vulnerability in Facebook's ad platform that allowed him to take control of an internal company server.</li><li>The flaw was caused by an unpatched Chrome version used by Facebook's ad server.</li><li>As soon as Sadeghipour reported the bug, Facebook acknowledged and addressed the issue.</li></ul>

How a researcher earned $100,000 hacking a Facebook server

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