Anand Prakash
Anand Prakash | |
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Born | |
🏡 Residence | Bangalore Urban |
🎓 Alma mater | Vellore Institute of Technology |
💼 Occupation | |
Works | CEO, Appsecure |
'Anand Prakash' is a Bangalore-based ethical hacker. He started his career as a security engineer in Flipkart in 2014.[1] He founded AppSecure,[2][3] a cyber security startup in May 2016. [4]
Prakash was featured in the Forbes "30 under 30 Asia" list.[4] In 2015, Facebook awarded him US$15,000 as bounty for logging in without an account. He received US$5,000 from Uber for booking a free ride and US$4,700 from Tinder.[5] He has also participated in bug bounties for GitHub, Nokia, SoundCloud, Dropbox and PayPal.[6]
Prakash completed his schooling in Bhadra, Rajasthan. In 2008, he moved to Kota to prepare for BTech entrance exams. He graduated in computer science from Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Laik, Rohan (11 March 2016), "The Bounty Hunter: This 22-year-old Flipkart employee is worth Rs 1.3 crore!", The Economic Times
- ↑ Whittaker, Zack (20 February 2019), "Uber fixes bug that exposed third-party app secrets", TechCrunch
- ↑ Christopher, Nilesh (30 September 2018), "Latest Facebook breach piles on India worries", The Economic Times
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Thomas, Anu (6 December 2017), "Following Uber, Zomato data breach, ethical hacker Tushar Goel has the key to avoid the next", The Economic Times
- ↑ Ghosh, Labonita (12 August 2018), "Ethical hackers in Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru are making a killing bounty-hunting bugs for tech firms", Mumbai Mirror
- ↑ Mehta, Ivan (7 March 2017), "INTERVIEW: This Indian Hacker Has Earned ₹2.2 Crore By Finding Bugs In Facebook, Twitter, And Other websites", Huffington Post
- ↑ Sharma, Sriram (4 August 2017), "Anand Prakash, India's bug bounty champ, wants to create a HackerOne rival", factordaily.com
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