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Hacker Offers $100K in BTC as Bounty for Hacking Halliburton

Published 11/18/2019, 04:25 PM
Updated 11/18/2019, 06:01 PM
© Reuters.  Hacker Offers $100K in BTC as Bounty for Hacking Halliburton
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Anonymous hacker Phineas Fisher will pay up to $100,000 in crypto to hackers for leaking some damaging information about global high-profile firms. The bounty, called the “Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program” was published on Nov. 15 and targets big companies including Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group and American oil company Halliburton (NYSE:HAL), as Vice reported on Nov. 17.

The idea of the new bounty is to pay other hackers who carry out politically motivated hacks against firms, which would lead to the disclosure of documents in the public interest, according to Vice. Other targets reportedly include mining and livestock companies in South America.

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