Updated: March 5, 2021 3:12 PM IST
Microsoft has awarded a bounty of $50000 (around Rs 37 lakh) to a Chennai-based security researcher, Laxman Muthiyah for drawing attention to a “potential vulnerability” on Microsoft online services. Muthiyah wrote in a blog post that the vulnerability might have allowed anyone to take over any Microsoft account on the company’s online services without consent permission. Also Read - Cortana no more available on Android, iOS devices, will be limited to Windows 10
The issue has since then been patched by the Microsoft security team. The bounty was rewarded to Muthiyah as part of Microsoft’s Identity Bounty Program. The security researcher said that the vulnerability in Microsoft online services was similar to a loophole in Instagram that was discovered by him previously. Also Read - Microsoft will soon allow all Xbox users to play free-to-play multiplayer games without a G