My figures after one year of bug bounty hunting

It's been one year since I started Bug Bounty. As I want to share with you all of my journey, I will share my figures too. It's pretty hard to be a full-time bug hunter, and you can see plenty of big amounts of money on Twitter. But what about the reality? Can you get this salary? I'm going to give you all my bounties and thoughts here.

I'm currently arriving in Taipei, I think for one month. That's a whole new country for me, very different from Seoul. It's a mix between Thailand and South Korea. It looks old but new at the same time, that's refreshing. For the moment, I like this city and the weather is pretty good, perfect for running! And the internet connection is pretty fast, a good point for hunting. I also see some bug bounty programs coming from Asia, so it will be easier to hunt on it by being there.

Before going into being a full-time bug hunter, I first wanted to do it part-time to see if I'd be able to make enough money to live. That's why I started next to my studies and my internships in pentest. I started doing that in August of 2022. Thanks to my colleagues in my team at BZHunt, I discovered that it was possible to find bugs.

I'm sure a big part of Bug Hunting is about the mentality. Before knowing Doomer and Chackal, for me, it was pretty impossible nor rare to find a bug on an app, especially on public programs. And then I saw them finding so many bugs during Live Bug Bounty events that I knew it would be possible for me to do the same.