Hacker earns $2 million in bug bounties on HackerOne By 08:20 AM Inhibitor181 (aka Cosmin) is the first bug bounty hunter to earn more than $2,000,000 in bounty awards through the vulnerability coordination and bug bounty program HackerOne. HackerOne says that Cosmin was also the 7th hacker to reach $1 million in earnings in just two years, as announced 334 days ago. He was able to get to the 7-figure payout mark by bringing in roughly $300,000 in bounties over just 90 days. The first millionaire hacker, 19-year-old Argentinian Santiago Lopez, was announced by HackerOne in March 2019, one year after he started to learn about hacking as a 16-year-old.