10 Year old Finish kid hacks Instagram, win $10,000 from Facebook

As per the boy’s father, Jani and his twin brothers are adept at finding security holes in websites which are supposedly secure.

According to a report from Mashable, a ten year old kid from Finland made by the headlines having won the $10,000 bug bounty from Facebook, after he figured out a way to delete comments made by users from Instagram’s servers.

Jani, a ten year old from Finland had claimed that the security flaw that he discovered in Instagram, could enable him to delete Justin Bieber’s captions and comments, should he decide to do so.

In a proof-of-concept demonstration, Jani displayed the hack to the Instagram team by deleting a comment they posted on a test account.

As per Iltalehti, a Finish news site, Jani and his twin brothers are prolific at finding bugs in seemingly secure sites, with the Instagram hack being their latest bug find to date.

The $10,000 prize money was part of Facebook’s Bug Bounty program which offered White Hat hackers and security researchers to find security flaws in their code.

Last year, Facebook has reportedly paid $936,000 to 210 different researchers who participated in its Big Bounty program. Of the total 13,000 submissions, 102 were considered to have had “high impact.”

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