AMD has faced criticism after offering a $10,000 bug bounty to a researcher who discovered a security vulnerability in one of its chips.[1049883] The company's actions have been described as 'gaslighting' by the researcher, who claims that AMD changed the rules for the bug bounty retroactively.[1012464] According to recent reports, the researcher was initially told that they would receive $10,000 for discovering a security vulnerability in an AMD chip.[1049883]