Yahoo launches $15,000 bug bounty after $12.50 company voucher debacle

Yahoo launched a bug bounty programme on Friday following the scandal that unravelled last month, which saw a security firm rewarded with a $12.50 Yahoo Company Store voucher for uncovering a security flaw.

In what is good news for security researchers, Yahoo said that the bounty programme will now pay up to $15,000 to ethical hackers who find vulnerabilities in its web services, a much bigger reward than its previous policy of offering a company t-shirt.