It said it has paid more than $ 200,000 to researchers for their work under Google's Android (mobile operating system) VRP programme launched in June. He documented his experience which caught the. The programme which was started in 2010 has seen Google giving out over USD 6 million in rewards so far. Last October, researcher and ex-Google employee Sanmay Ved was able to purchase the domain name for one whole minute for the price of 12. In 2015, the company gave $ 2 million in rewards to over 300 people. He found a bug in our vulnerability submission form," the blog posted by Eduardo Vela Nava from Google Security team, said. "Tomasz Bojarski found 70 bugs on Google in 2015, and was our most prolific researcher of the year. Google said researchers from all over the world, coming from countries like Great Britain, Poland, Germany, Romania, Israel, Brazil, the US, China, Russia and India, participated in its security rewards programme. Ved, in a post on LinkedIn, had said he chose his award to be donated to the Art of Living's education programme which runs 404 free schools across 18 states in India, providing free education to more than 39,200 children living in slums, tribal and rural belts where child labour and poverty are widespread. We then doubled this amount when Sanmay donated his reward to charity,” Google said in a blog post. Our initial financial reward to Sanmay - $6,006.13 - spelled-out Google, numerically (squint a little and you'll see it!). “You may have read about Sanmay Ved, a researcher who was able to buy for one minute on Google Domains. However, the Mandvi resident (in the country's Kutch region) had said it was never about money and he wanted the amount to be donated to the Art of Living India Foundation. He bought the domain for $12 and gained access to its webmaster tools before Google cancelled the sale. In September last year, the ex-Googler, while searching Google Domains, found that (domain name) was available for purchase.
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