Pornhub Will Pay You $25,000 to Hack Their Site

PornHub
PornHub

While plenty of companies, including Google, Instagram, and Uber, have offered as much as $100,000 bounties for hacking their code, generally speaking, porn is just a nice little reprieve for the average hacker. But today, get to make their avocations their vocations: Pornhub is offering lots of cash for anyone who can hack the site.

The porn site that boasts daily traffic of over 60 million is looking to root out security flaws by letting hackers have at their site through the platform HackerOne. They'll be doling out between $50 and $25,000, depending on the magnitude of the bug, for every flaw that people dug up without getting distracted by the other stuff on the site.

"Like other major tech players have been doing as of late, we’re tapping some of the most talented security researchers as a proactive and precautionary measure — in addition to our dedicated developer and security teams—to ensure not only the security of our site but that of our users, which is paramount to us," Pornhub vice president Corey Price said in a release.

Pornhub previously used a similar, invite-only system, but they've opened up the hack-a-thon in to prevent another incident like the malware that hit the site and many other porn hotspots in September, or a more embarrassing situation, like last summer's massive Ashley Madison data leak. Despite security risks and privacy concerns really stopping no one from looking for porn, the site feels responsible for protecting the privacy of a boatload of users. On top of having daily traffic equivalent to 19% of the U.S. population, Pornhub also has 4 million registered users.

TL;DR: a lot of people watch porn. And now you can help protect their identities for $25,000. You, too, can be a porn hero.

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Dustin Nelson is a News Writer with Thrillist. He holds a Guinness World Record, but has never met the fingernail lady. He’s written for Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal, The Rumpus, and other digital wonderlands. Follow him @dlukenelson.