A young man works 20 hours a week, earns an absurd amount of money a year – how did he do it?

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A man from Nebraska earned 100,000 euros in one year alone with comparatively little work. how did he do that?

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Sam Curry is a young man from Nebraska and made 100,000 euros in one year. And that with his 20-hour job. The special thing about him is that he has a lot of experience in the computer field and as a hacker looks for security gaps. The BBC reported that he was able to make so much money with comparatively little working time.

As a so-called “white hat hacker” he can earn a lot of money with it, even if the competition is tough. And the income is enough to easily finance other hobbies, as he explains himself.

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As a “white hat hacker” he earns a lot of money

What does a white hat hacker do? While most people probably think of hacking in negative terms, this is actually a positive. Because these hackers do not sell found security gaps on the Darknet or other dubious sites to harm people, but sell them to companies.

Large companies such as Google, Facebook (Meta) or Microsoft issue so-called “bounties”: If someone finds a security gap, they report it to the relevant company and receive a reward or bounty.

Hackers like Sam Curry can make a lot of money with it, depending on how severe the security gaps are. For some security gaps you get several tens of thousands of euros. This can pay off with three or four security gaps.

In an interview with the BBC, he himself explained that hackers fight each other for the best bounties. Most of the time, however, the hackers work closely together. The “white hat hackers” are a large worldwide community and he would know quite a few people in dozens of different countries.

Speaking to bugcrowd.com, Sam Curry noted that getting paid is just a bonus for him:

I am financially secure and able to spend my time traveling and building side projects that I am personally interested in. I love hacking – the fact that someone is paying me to do it is just a bonus.

ChatGPT makes bounty hunting easier for many today

How does it look today? With artificial intelligence like ChatGPT, the field of hackers becomes more complicated in several ways:

  • For some, it is all the easier to develop malware or tools to harm people or to access data.
  • It will be easier for the others to find errors and security gaps. Thanks to ChatGPT, a user earned 40,000 euros in one fell swoop.
  • Many companies therefore spend a lot of money to convince hackers to sell the vulnerabilities to them instead of offering them on the dark web or other sites.

    • So for people like Sam Curry, vulnerability should still be a lucrative job. Other people also make a lot of money thanks to ChatGPT, but do not hack websites or companies:

    A man earns more than 50,000 euros a year thanks to ChatGPT and that because of a simple app

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