United Airlines Gives 1M Miles to Man Who Spotted Website Bugs
Jordan Wiens, a computer security analyst from Melbourne, Fla., posted on Twitter the so-called bounty he received for pointing out two problems he found on United’s website.
“Wow! @united really paid out! Got a million miles for my bug bounty submissions! Very cool,” Wiens wrote on the post, which included screenshots of the miles deposits.
Wiens told WTVT-TV in Tampa Bay, Fla., he found the flaws after about six hours of poking around on the website. He said that while the vulnerability he found was important, he didn’t think it was worth his reward.
“I did not expect to qualify for a full million,” he said.
So what does 1 million miles translate to in flights? In coach class, Wiens can book 40 round trips within the United States and Canada, 16 round trips to Europe or 12 round trips to Australia. In first class, he can book 20 round trips within the United States and Canada, eight to Europe and seven to Australia.
Wiens said he had been promising to take his wife to Hawaii for a while now, but now “She’s like, ‘you’ve got to do better than Hawaii.'”
“I have to give kudos to United for doing it,” he said of the company’s bounty program.
Like Us on Facebook for more stories from GephardtDaily.com
