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HackerOne company history timeline

2012

Rice, Abma and Prins connected, and together with Merijn Terheggen founded HackerOne in 2012.

2015

By June 2015, HackerOne's bug bounty platform had identified approximately 10,000 vulnerabilities and paid researchers over $1 million in bounties.

In November 2015, Terheggen stepped down from his role as CEO and was replaced by Marten Mickos.

2018

That’s a 143% increase since 2018, demonstrating that hackers are growing their skills and expertise as organizations and industries across the globe invest in hacker-powered solutions.

2019

Since the release of the 2019 Hacker Report two years ago, the HackerOne community has doubled in size to over one million registered hackers.

2020

Hackers earned $40 million in 2020 alone, contributing to reaching the milestone of $100 million paid out to hackers on the HackerOne platform.

2022

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Founded
2012
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Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
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Alex Rice,Michiel Prins,Jobert Abma,Merijn Terheggen
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