Tesla (TSLA) Will Pay You to Find Security 'Bugs'

Tesla Motors (Nasdaq: TSLA) is largely a high-tech firm with a car problem. And now, the company is offering rewards to those that can find "bugs" in its software.

According to Dow Jones, citing a post on Bugcrowd, Tesla is offering $25 to $1,000 per "bug," or security issue.

Reports have about 22 bugs being found to-date and each of the security researchers have been paid on their findings.

Tesla also has the following Responsible Disclosure Guidelines and verbiage on its website:

We will investigate legitimate reports and make every effort to quickly correct any vulnerability. To encourage responsible reporting, we commit that we will not take legal action against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you if you comply with the following Responsible Disclosure Guidelines:

• Provide details of the vulnerability, including information needed to reproduce and validate the vulnerability and a Proof of Concept (POC)
• Make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data and interruption or degradation of our services
• Do not modify or access data that does not belong to you
• Give us a reasonable time to correct the issue before making any information public

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