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Thanks to the following people who have discovered and responsibly disclosed security holes in Y Combinator software.
20180304 Arkadiy Tetelman
20180313 Wai Yan Aung
20180429 Mohamed Sayed
20180501 Wai Yan Aung
20180501 Faizal Abroni
20180606 nthack
20180917 Philip Thomas
20181023 Philip Thomas
20200714 Pritam Mukherjee
20200720 Shiraz Ali Khan
20201124 Anil Bhatt
20210524 Kuter Dinel
20220121 Shishir Shrestha
20230812 Nessim Jerbi
20231211 Kuter Dinel