“We are delighted to award Batee5a with a personalized character in Forge of Empires for his outstanding work on our bug bounty program,” said Stefan Walter, Product Head at InnoGames. Batee5a was chosen as the recipient of this additional prize due to the quality and accuracy of his vulnerability reports, as well as going above and beyond by alerting the team to any other non-security related issues he spotted within the platform. Gamers will now be able to select Batte5a’s likeness from a selection of avatars they use to represent their accounts in Forge of Empires.Ī keen gamer himself, Batee5a started reporting security weaknesses to InnoGames on HackerOne in early 2019, and has discovered 31 security vulnerabilities, earning $13,000 to date through the program. In addition to incentivising hackers by paying bounties, InnoGames has recently run this promotion to identify the Most Valuable Hacker on its program and award them with an avatar of their likeness. Since 2019, InnoGames has resolved over 58 vulnerabilities with the help from 196 hackers like Batee5a and paid out $25,000. For qualifying findings, InnoGames offers a bounty - an award given to a hacker who reports a valid security weakness to an organization. InnoGames is among gaming brands like Nintendo and Riot Games taking a proactive approach to protecting its assets, inviting trusted hackers to identify potential security weaknesses on its site. “I am incredibly proud to see my hard work be recognized and valued by a company I know and love, and I hope that seeing someone like me protecting the empire - and its software - inspires others to take their gaming to the next level and start hacking.” “Seeing my face building a Stone Age city in a game that my friends play is so cool,” said Batee5a.
InnoGames, Germany's leading developer and publisher of mobile and online games, in conjunction with leading hacker powered security platform, HackerOne, has awarded Batee5a with an avatar likened to himself in the upcoming release of city builder game, Forge of Empires. Immortalised by new Forge of Empires avatar for his work securing InnoGames’ websites with HackerOneĮgyptian bug bounty hunter, Ahmed Sherif a.k.a Batee5a, is the first hacker to be named InnoGames’ Most Valuable Hacker and honoured with a part in one of the games he helps secure.
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