Jordan Wiens, the man who exposed a severe bug on the United Airlines website, is now rich, well, rich in airline miles that is. He’s been rewarded 1 million miles for helping them fix a bug that could have caused major damaged if it was exploited.

“That is a lot of airline miles and is equivalent to 40 round trips in the U.S. and Canada, 16 round trips to Europe and 12 round trips to Australia in coach class and 20 round trips in the U.S. and Canada, eight round trips to Europe and seven round trips to Australia in business class,” according to Tech Times. 

Wiens wasn’t exactly quite about his reward either, in fact, he posted his jackpot to Twitter to show that he did in fact receive a reward for his service.  The security flaw in question here was a remote code execution flaw.

“A remote code execution flaw can be devastating if exploited by attackers with a clear target,” said Nicole Arce, in the Tech Times report.

“It can be used to gain unrestricted entry into an otherwise private system and inject malicious codes and software that would allow the attackers to take full control of the most sensitive portions of the system, putting the security of the airline and its staff and customers at high risk.”

According to the report, Wiens didn’t think that the report was as important and surprised by the reward. He is held to an agreement which prevents him from disclosing or exploiting the bug.

United Airlines is also pushing a bug bounty program where “ethical hackers” can find and fix security holes on their websites before unethical hackers get a hold of them and cause widespread damage. They will also be rewarded handsomely in the form of airline miles granted they have enough vacation time to enjoy it all.

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