A 10 - year old named Jani was able to hack the world wide social media platform “ Instagram ” , and thus earning him $ 10 ,000 from Facebook according to news site,Iltalehti. Jani figured out a way to get into Instagram ’ s servers and delete text posted by Instagram users . Jani was rewarded $ 10 , 000 by Facebook as part of its bug bounty program , which offers cash rewards to people who find bugs and flaws in Facebook ’s digital infrastructure . That includes the Facebook -owned Instagram .
The boy told Iltalehti that he could delete what people wrote on the picture- sharing social media, demonstrating it to Instagram by deleting a comment they made on a test account . Jani said he could even delete Justin Bieber’ s comments with the flaw he found . According to the boy ’s father , Jani and his twin brother have found security flaws in websites before , but they haven ’t been significant enough to justify a payout , until this one .
Facebook ’s bug bounty program welcomes anyone to find bugs and flaws , and offers cash rewards to problems that are significant , similar to Google ’s own security rewards program . According to the most recent release from Facebook , the company received over 13 , 000 submissions from researchers in 2015 alone , 526 of which were valid reports . In 2015 , Facebook paid out a total of $ 936 ,000 to 210 researchers, averaging about $ 1 ,780 per submission .
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