[su_heading size=”18″]A 10-year-old Finnish boy (who is not old enough to sign up for Facebook) impressed Mark Zuckerberg by hacking Instagram![/su_heading]
Young Jani received $10,000 from Facebook, which owns Instagram, for a security flaw he discovered. The boy discovered a flaw that allowed him to delete any written content on the social network by changing the code.
“I could delete content from anyone! Even Justin Bieber!” the 10-year-old said.
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As an aspiring security expert, Jani emailed his discovery to Facebook and verified it by deleting a comment he had made on a test account. The bug was fixed in February, and in March the social network notified Jani of the fix and gave him his cash reward.
Jani said in an interview that he plans to use the money to buy a new bike, soccer equipment and new computers for his siblings. The Finn became the youngest recipient of Facebook's bug bounty program, which offers rewards to people who identify and report security risks. Before Jani, the youngest was 13 years old.
Since its launch in 2011, Facebook's bug bounty program has awarded more than $4.3 million to over 800 researchers. The program determines payouts based on the risk of a bug, not how complex it is. In 2015 alone, 210 researchers received $936,000, with an average payout of $1,780.
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