A report from one of the largest documented surveys conducted on the ethical hacking community reveals some hackers are earning over 16 times that of full-time software engineers in their home country. The study had 1,698 respondents and conducted by HackerOne, a global hacker community platform, which has seen a 10-fold increase in its registered users in the past two years.

Additional key findings:

— Nearly 1 in 4 hackers have not reported a vulnerability that they found because the company didn’t have a channel to disclose it.

— Money remains a top reason for why bug bounty hackers hack, but it’s fallen from first to fourth place compared to 2016. Above all, hackers are motivated by the opportunity to learn tips and techniques, with “to be challenged” and “to have fun” tied for second.

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