Mega's vulnerability program is a hit, seven bugs fixed in week one

Kim Dotcom has proved yet again that he can put his money where his mouth is when it comes to Mega. Like he had promised not too long after the launch of his file hosting service, Dotcom has payed out participants who found bugs in the service.Even as the program is in its first week, Dotcom has confirmed that seven bug fixes have been found and fixed on Mega. While the company did not detail what bugs were fixed, how many total submissions were made or the names of the participants, it urged more users to help it find security loopholes and fix them.The company said that the program is here to stay but did not reveal how much the pay-out would be if one helped fix a bug. In a blog post,  Mega explained how it classifies vulnerabilities and their impacts. Vulnerabilities were classified into VI classes, with I being the lowest risk and VI being the highest.

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