HackerOne Pauses Internet Bug Bounty

HackerOne is reporting that they are "pausing submissions" in response to AI putting vulnerability reporting in the express lane, which in turn is overwhelming the recipients' abilities to parse through and fix them. As examples, InfoWorld notes that Curl said they were not participating in the bug bounty program anymore back in January due to a deluge of reports, and Google also stopped accepting AI reports in March.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/04/17/hackerone-pauses-internet-bug-bounty