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Google paid out $6.5 million in worm bounties in 2019

Google says $500,000 of the $6.5 million it awarded researchers in worm bounties in 2019 went to charity — that is 5 occasions the volume it donated in 2018.
Google says $500,000 of the $6.5 million it awarded researchers in bug bounties in 2019 went to charity — that's five times the amount it donated in 2018.

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