The teenager said “it had many links to different sections about Google services and infrastructure, but before I visited any section, I read something in the footer: ‘Google Confidential’.”

“At that point I stopped poking at the website and reported the issue right away,” he added.

Google’s security team replied saying they would look into the issue and Pereira was stunned when they eventually offered him a reward.

“I thought to myself ‘Cool, this is probably a small thing that isn't worth a dime, the website probably had some technical stuff about Google servers and nothing really important’,” he recalled.

“I don't know what the website did contain, but some weeks later I got an email right after getting out of school that said my report was worth much more than a dime…”