In an age when platforms and companies exist entirely online, and businesses could be ruined with the click-clack of a keyboard, security is paramount. Bugcrowd makes it easier for white-hat hackers to hack companies and get paid for it. This is the business model of Bugcrowd, the world's No. Thanks to Bugcrowd, and event sponsor Atlassian, a group of the world's best will battle it out for a pot of cash worth $100,000. Today de Ceukelaire and hackers like him have congregated in Sydney. Alongside a core group of elite hackers, de Ceukelaire has spent 2018 being flown to exclusive locations to hack world-renowned companies at their behest and find the exploits their internal security teams have missed. Over the last six months, he's been to New York, Las Vegas, Buenos Aires. Right now, de Ceukelaire is on a different type of tour. Inti de Ceukelaire essentially hacked himself on stage with Metallica. To this day, he's convinced the mic wasn't actually turned on, because Inti de Ceukelaire doesn't have music skills. He was invited backstage, and Metallica signed his keyboard.
De Ceukelaire got tickets to the group's next concert. After finding the exploit, he emailed the band, scared shitless ("They could've sued me and sent me to jail for the rest of my life").Īlmost immediately, he received a response. I paid for my kids' education with bug bounty money.īut in 2018, de Ceukelaire is more like a rockstar.ĭe Ceukelaire didn't get paid for hacking Metallica he got something far more valuable. This is the Wild West and hackers are the cowboys. Some can make six figures a year from such hacking. If you find a vulnerability, or a potential exploit on a service or website and you bring it to the company's attention, you'll be financially rewarded for your efforts. Google has them, Apple has them, Facebook started its program in April. And, thanks to "bug bounties," he gets paid handsomely for his efforts.īug bounties: A significant number of large tech companies have them. He spends his days (and nights) on the hunt for potential vulnerabilities in websites, services, anything you can name. If the bad guys find that vulnerability, Metallica might be in trouble.įortunately, de Ceukelaire is one of the good guys.ĭe Ceukelaire is a white-hat hacker, a maestro using his deep knowledge of online security to hack companies for a living. Telling me, he believes, will expose Metallica to other potential hacks. When I ask de Ceukelaire how he did it, or even what he means when he says "I hacked Metallica," he won't tell me. He had no intention of holding the band ransom.
He always wanted to play in a band but didn't have, as he puts it, "music skills."ĭe Ceukelaire hacked Metallica for the attention. He didn't have a good reason, or malicious intent. Inti de Ceukelaire once hacked Metallica.
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