The article originally said that he received a $12,500 bounty for it, but it looks like that's been removed now (maybe you're not supposed to say).

You can still see it at both the top and bottom of this archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20200204164053/http://www.perime...

half of Jeff Bezos' net worth.

Important to note that this flaw only affects the desktop version of WhatsApp. Which is not what Bezos was using.

There was (is?) obviously an issue with mobile WhatsApp and local file access (perhaps different in nature to desktop one) and the joke was just too good.

yeah but the joke was good so I went with it