Someone using the name "Pinkie Pie" won $60,000 from Google!

[Galactica]

Wow- lucky!

I think it's genius of Google (and any big company) to do this-  hackers are out there already and this person (and probably any as talented and bored as him) might just as easily have hacked the site anyways just to see if he could and potentially cause problems-

Far better to motivate such potential hackers with a nice tasty bribe in exchange for how the heck they did it...  I assume they have to tell Google or whoever how they got in?

[stopxmotion]

A teenage boy named pinkie pie..

I'm sure he's not a collector, lol.

[UnicornTamer]

Nice one! I knew mozilla offered rewards to anyone who could hack them as well.

Hope he uses it wisely.

Yea, on ponies. 

[Saja]

Awesome!

[hathorcat]

Wow- lucky!

I think it's genius of Google (and any big company) to do this-  hackers are out there already and this person (and probably any as talented and bored as him) might just as easily have hacked the site anyways just to see if he could and potentially cause problems-

Far better to motivate such potential hackers with a nice tasty bribe in exchange for how the heck they did it...  I assume they have to tell Google or whoever how they got in?

Yes, Google run it as a bounty hunting competition - usually the competition is only open for a few hours and actually takes place at a convention and live so that Google can monitor everything. Its a really interesting concept.

[LadySatine]

Lol Mint in Egg! Congrats to "Pinkie Pie"