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Facebook expands $500 payments to users who find security bugs

By Joe Williams
Published September 17, 2018 4:40pm ET
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Facebook expands $500 payments to users who find security bugs
In this June 11, 2014 photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. British data protection authorities said Wednesday, July 2, that it is investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users. | (Jeff Chiu/AP)

Facebook is willing to pay you to strengthen its security.

The social media giant, which faced intense congressional and public scrutiny this year after political consultant Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the data of millions of its users, is offering cash to individuals who detect vulnerabilities in third-party apps.

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