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Craig Hale

Google is ending its Android app store bug bounty program

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Google has announced it will be ending its Google Play Security Reward Program, a bug bounty initiative which allowed researchers and developers to identify and resolve vulnerabilities in popular Android apps for nearly seven years.

Launched in October 2017, the program attracted security researchers to discover and disclose flaws found in apps distributed through the Google Play Store.

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