Hacker News Security

If you find a security hole, please let us know at security@ycombinator.com. We try to respond (with fixes!) as soon as possible, and really appreciate the help.
Thanks to the following people who have discovered and responsibly disclosed security holes in Hacker News:
2026-07-14: Varun Biniwale
2025-07-08: Benjamin Flesch
2023-01-02: Carter Sande, Mark Slater, James Darpinian
2022-09-04: Dimitris Triantafyllidis
2021-06-07: Atamyrat Hezretgulyyev
2021-02-14: Michael Brooks
2017-04-30: Michael Flaxman
2017-04-14: Blake Rand
2017-03-15: Blake Rand
2017-03-01: Jaikishan Tulswani
2016-02-17: Eric Tjossem
2016-01-13: Mert Taşçi
2015-09-07: Sandeep Singh
2015-09-04: Manish Bhattacharya
2015-08-27: Chris Marlow
2015-06-24: Stephen Sclafani
2015-03-02: Max Bond
2014-11-01: Ovidiu Toader
2014-10-27: San Tran
2014-05-01: Jonathan Rudenberg
2012-08-01: Louis Lang
2012-07-20: Michael Borohovski
2010-01-12: Zain Memon
2009-06-03: Daniel Fox Franke
2007-06-21: Brett Gibson
Missing From This List? If you reported a vulnerability to us and don't see your name, please shoot us an email and we'll happily add you. We crawled through tons of emails trying to find all reports but inevitably missed some.