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> Microsoft did pay a $100k bounty to a hacker.

No, they paid US$100k to a white-hat, someone who struggles against black-hat hackers. If a headline can't distinguish between white hats and black hats, educated writers normally add some words to clarify their meaning -- and they did. But the submitter omitted those words. Hence, lying.



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