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[โ€“] EldenLord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I know a guy who did exactly that and got sued. The security failure he reported even was a Straftatbestand committed by the company and so he won the process. German companies really love shooting themselves in the foot.

[โ€“] bless@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Over here, not just sued, but sued for extortion because they had the audacity to ask for bug bounty. Ok then, if I ever find a security hole that exposes sensitive data, filing a gdpr report it is