India accounted for the largest share of Facebook's bug bounty programme in the first half of 2016, ahead of countries like the US and Mexico.
The social networking giant paid a total of USD 611,741 to 149 researchers between January-June this year as part of the bug bounty programme.
A bug is an error or defect in software or hardware that causes a programme to malfunction. It often occurs due to conflicts in software when applications try to run in tandem.
"We received more than 9,000 reports in the first half of 2016... The top three countries based on the number of payouts were India, USA and Mexico," Facebook said in a blogpost.
In March this year, Facebook had said it had paid Rs 4.84 crore to researchers in India as part of the bug bounty programme, the most paid till then by the US-based firm.
