Bug Bounty Year in Review 2019 - Shopify
Feb 6, 2020

Summary
This post details improvements to Shopify's bug bounty program in 2019, including paying bounties in full within 7 days, increasing the maximum bounty to $50,000 for specific vulnerability types, and improving duplicate report handling. It also discusses leveraging provisioned accounts for analytics, experimenting with a private bug bounty program (Shopify-Experiments), and automating response times with Slack bots and shorthand commands. The post highlights reduced average response and triage times, faster bounty payouts, and an increase in disclosed bugs.