Actually, the research person was granted $10,000 from the bug bunty program.
You can't pay someone $10,000 for an email of your favorite youtuber.
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Yeah, I had to read all the way to the end of this really long article in order to discover that for myself. What a crappy title.
I can see black hat abuse and selling these leaked email addresses being much more lucrative tbh.
You could pay me for it. I only accept anonymous payments.
I'll leak the email address of my YouTube user account for the bargain price of just $9,999
The email address?
Yes, the address. Probably not a big deal for average people, but definitely a bigger deal for any big name that doesn't use a business email as a login.