Anand Prakash

Anand Prakash is an Indian ethical hacker and entrepreneur from Rajasthan. He is the Founder & CEO of PingSafe, which SentinelOne acquired for over $100 million. He was named in Forbes 30 Under 30 2017 Asia list.

Early life and education

Prakash was born in Bhadra, Rajasthan, India. He studied B.Tech Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology.

Career

He started his career in 2014 as a security engineer at Flipkart. After this, in 2016, he started a red teaming startup named AppSecure. Then, in 2021, another company named PingSafe was established, which was acquired in 2024 by American cyber security company SentinelOne for over $100 million.

Notable works

He found a bug in 2016 on Facebook which allowed the takeover of any account. He discovered a bug in Uber in 2017 that allowed anyone to take Uber rides for free. In 2018, he found a security flaw in Tinder, after which he was given a reward of . In 2019, he found a bug in Uber, after which he was given a reward of $5500. In April 2023, he found a "security flaw" in LinkedIn that could have led to the deletion of any posts.