10-yr-old gets $10,000 from FB for hack

San Francisco, May 4

A 10-year-old Finnish boy has received a $10,000 reward from Mark Zuckerberg for spotting a bug in Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram, becoming the youngest hacker to receive a cash reward from the social media giant for hacking its own products.

Despite the fact that he is too young to register an account on Instagram or Facebook, Jani, the Helsinki-based boy, discovered he could infiltrate Instagram and demonstrate the hack without even logging into an account.

A Facebook spokesperson told Forbes that the bug was fixed in February and awarded Jani $10,000 in March. The prize is part of Facebook’s Bug Bounty programme that offers rewards to White Hat hackers. — PTI