[filleduchaos]

The bounty was $5,000 not fifty thousand. And frankly that would be chump change anywhere for the opportunity cost.

[sellyme]

It was $50,000:

> He didn’t end up getting a new Tesla, but the automaker awarded him a special $50,000 bug report reward — several times higher than the max official bug reward limit:

You're looking at the $5,000 bounty awarded for exposing Supercharger-related data that Tesla "didn't want [...] out there", which is obviously a much less severe issue than remote control of the entire fleet.

[filleduchaos]

Ah okay, thank you. Not sure why the $5000 figure stuck with me

[jefftk]

No, $5k was for an earlier bug. "the automaker awarded him a special $50,000 bug report reward — several times higher than the max official bug reward limit"