| > I hope he doesn't get caught in litigations. If you ever discover vulnerabilities, responsible disclosure seems like the only way to try to keep yourself out of trouble and even then only if ignorant people in the company/lawmakers won't misconstrue what has happened and want to put you in jail regardless. Going on the company Slack, announcing that you're a hacker who has stolen data and finishing your messages with something negative about the company does not seem to be a good way of doing that: > Hi @here > I announce i am a hacker and uber has suffered a data breach. > Slack has been stolen, confidential data with Confluence, stash and 2 monorepos from phabricator have also been stolen, along with secrets from sneakers. > #uberunderpaisdrives That feels like opening yourself up to being treated as a criminal, especially if you post about it elsewhere (like social media) and the "breach" gets attention, which might negatively impact the stock price of the company in question. It's good that many companies out there have bug bounties and hopefully InfoSec will be improved as a consequence of this, but there are better ways about achieving the same result, without putting yourself at so much risk. |