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In September 2022, Australia woke up to the largest data breach in its history. Optus, the country’s second-largest telecom disclosed that the personal information of nearly 10 million people had been exposed. To put that in perspective, that’s almost 40% of the entire population. Among the data spilled were 2.1 million government-issued IDs – passports, driver’s licenses, Medicare cards – the kind of information that isn’t just sensitive, but life-defining.

“Tech giants pay hackers millions to hack them – on purpose.” What once sounded like a risky experiment has now become standard practice in cybersecurity. Bug bounty programs have moved from the fringes into the mainstream because traditional defenses alone can’t keep up with today’s scale and sophistication of attacks.