Hacker says data stolen to make Zomato launch bug bounty

The hacker who stole 1.7 crore Zomato user records has confronted the food discovery platform and said the records were hacked to make Zomato launch a bug bounty program. Adding the hack was intended to make Zomato aware of its security vulnerabilities, the hacker agreed to delete all stolen records. Zomato announced it will soon launch a bug bounty program.