Security Community Raises Money for Researcher Snubbed by Facebook Bounty Program

Now that Facebook has refused to pay a Palestinian security researcher the bug bounty he hoped to earn for reporting a problem with its service, a top security researcher has launched a campaign to pay him the money Facebook denied him.

The campaign, launched by security pro Marc Maiffret, has raised $6,030 for Khalil Shreateh thus far, more than ten times the amount that Facebook’s bug bounty program pays out for bugs of this sort.