Nintendo to Offer Up to $20,000 for Anyone that Finds Switch Vulnerabilities - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 April 2017 / 9,155 Views
Nintendo has updated its HackerOne policy to include the Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo offers cash rewards between $100 and $20,000 for anyone who can find and report vulnerabilities in Nintendo's latest console, as well as the Nintendo 3DS.
One of the other changes to the policy is that "Nintendo reserves the right to choose whether or not it will address any reported vulnerabilities."
The HackerOne program launched in December. Since then three individuals have received bounties for discovering three Nintendo 3DS exploits.
Thanks Perfectly Nintendo.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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That's a pretty low reward for what they're asking people to give over here.
Oh ganon...
If they give you 20.000 dollars, deny them! :P
Only vulnerability I've found is that the internal memory has a limit of 1000 screenshots lol... also Breath of the wild has more than 1000 screenshots worth of beautiful imagery in around a month of gameplay.
20k is the top reward too for that, it goes as low as $100.
I guess there is one thing which is pointless in the system just from a "it doesn't need to be there" point of view, no issues with it though, but just how the Sleep options includes a option to disable the sleep mode while the console is playing media content. What media content they're referring to I would just love to know because there is no way you can play anything on the Switch as of right now.
Maybe by "media content" they mean playing a game cartridge lol
I don't know if I'd call $20,000 "low".
I could pay off my entire tuition with that!
I could very easily envision people trying to install, make, or place "vulnerabilities" on purpose just so they can get money.
Maybe Nintendo was inspired by the industry's leading standard in post market beta testing, Microsoft. On second thought, no. Microsoft doesn't pay for their mistakes.
You're trying WAY too hard. Wtf is "HD too small"???? Literally one of the dumbest comments I have ever seen
