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PayPal denies to pay Bug Bounty reward to teenager

A 17-year-old German student says he found a security flaw in PayPal’s website but was denied a reward because he’s too young. PayPal’s terms for rewarding people who find bugs, but mentions nothing about the age of the discoverer. Robert Kugler is a German student who has found bugs for companies like Microsoft and Mozilla in the past. His work on uncovering problems in Mozilla’s Firefox browser has earned him about $4,500 over the past two years.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/05/paypal-denies-to-pay-bug-bounty-reward.html

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