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Meet Shahmeer Amir, the 21-year-old Multan-born hacker, who has been ranked the number one hacker in Pakistan, and 11^th overall in the world by HackerOne, a vulnerability disclosure company in California.

Amir has also been ranked the third most accomplished bug hunter in the world by Dark Reading, a cyber security news site.

Amir has earned $150,000 by reporting bugs to more than 300 organisations around the world including tech giants such as Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, LinkedIn and Dropbox, all in a span of two years.

Amir is currently based in Lahore, managing his own cyber security startup, Cyphlon, working on projects to better secure the Pakistani cyberspace from internal and external threats.