It looks like the teenager who discovered the Group FaceTime audio bug could be rewarded by Apple’s bug bounty program.
One week after social media picked up on a FaceTime exploit that allowed callers to eavesdrop on a recipient before the call is picked up, the original discoverer has been visited by an unnamed Apple executive.
“They also indicated that Grant would be eligible for the bug bounty program. And we would hear from their security team the following week in terms of what that meant,” said discoverer Grant Thompson’s mother Michele Thompson. “If he got some kind of bug bounty for what he found we’d certainly put it to good use for his college because I think he’s going to go far, hopefully. This is actually a field he was interested in before and even more so now.”