Chennai researcher gets ₹36 lakh from Microsoft for reporting a bug

A Chennai-based security researcher has received $50,000 (about ₹36 lakh) from Microsoft for finding a potential vulnerability in their online services. The bug would "have allowed anyone to takeover any Microsoft account without consent permission", Laxman Muthiyah wrote in a blog. Microsoft patched the issue after Muthiyah reported it and awarded him as part of their Identity Bounty Program.