# One Million Dollars in Bug Bounties

DevFeed: [One Million Dollars in Bug Bounties](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/one-million-dollars-in-bug-bounties-1508.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/one-million-dollars-in-bug-bounties>)

Author: Peter Yaworski

Published: 2019-04-03T13:15:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Bug Bounty](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bugbounty.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [vulnerability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerability.md>), [Exploit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/exploit.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [bug-bounty](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug-bounty.md>), [reports](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reports.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [vulnerability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerability.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify announces that it has awarded more than $1 million through its bug bounty programs. The article explains how security researchers support Shopify's security strategy and improve the platform, and it presents program statistics and examples of resolved vulnerabilities, including server-side request forgery leading to root access and an administrator authentication bypass.

## Source excerpt

Today, we're excited to announce that we've awarded over $1M USD in bounties through our bounty programs. At Shopify, bounty programs complement our security strategy and allow us to leverage a community of researchers who help secure our platform. They each bring their perspective and specialties and are can evaluate our platform from thousands of different viewpoints to create a better Shopify product and a better user experience for the 800,000+ businesses we safeguard.