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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

β€œHack” is a very strong word here. They asked the website if they could be admin and the website happily said yes and made them admins.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I agree, but I also think the researchers should be awarded a hefty bounty for knowing which part of the website to ask.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh definitely. They found a glaring vulnerability, it just doesn’t mean they hacked it. An equivalent would be somebody paying a pen testing team to see what they can do and the team finds an open window into the accounting office and they climb in, put a note on the desk stating that the pen testing team needs to get paid three times as much, and then accounting does it no questions asked after they find the note.

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