Microsoft Just Gave This Hacker $200,000

Microsoft gave away $260,000 to a bunch of hackers last night. That's "hackers" in the good sense-here, the clever programmers who won its Blue Hat security contest, including a grand prize of $200,000. The big prize was awarded to a PhD student at Columbia University, Vasilis Pappas, who was handed the check in an American Idol-style contest finale complete with loud music and confetti.

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