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2026-08-10 / HACKER NEWS'What Happened to HackerOne?' — Bug Bounty Veteran Says the Platform Trains AI on Report Data While Executives Claim 'Zero Training on Researcher Data'Joel Margolis, a security engineer and bug bounty hunter since 2017, published a 272-point post on August 7 arguing HackerOne traded its hacker-centric identity for a profit-driven one after raising $160M between 2014 and 2022 and replacing decade-long CEO Marten Mickos with Kara Sprague in late 2024. His sharpest claim is that all reports now route through 'Hai,' an AI system whose agents are shaped by contextual report data — which he says makes the executive line about 'zero training on researcher data' a semantic dodge, since 'past reports change future automated behavior.' It lands against a documented triage collapse: HackerOne saw a 76% year-over-year submission jump through March 2026 with the genuine-vulnerability rate stuck near 25%, curl ended its bounty in January over AI slop, and GitHub halved public payouts on July 27.

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