#1
He hacked into the main frame! Lucky for Facebook, it was a 10 year old and not some anonymous punk ready to CTRL+C, CTRL+V dump a list of data on pastebin.
The 10-year-old somehow managed to hack Instagram, exposing a major flaw.
Facebook (who bought Instagram back in 2012) rewarded him with $10,000!
Think about being a 10 year old again with 10 G's! I use to get pumped up when my grandma hooked it up with $5
#2
Only known as Jani (his parents understandably have withheld his surname) the young genius benefited from Facebook's ‘bug bounty' program. This offers cash rewards to people who find bugs and flaws in Facebook's digital infrastructure. Luckily for Jani, this includes the Facebook-owned Instagram.
Apparently, he said that he could delete what people wrote on Instagram. He demonstrated by deleting a comment they made on a test account. He claimed that he could even delete Justin Bieber's comments with the flaw he found.
#3
Jani and his twin brother have found flaws in other websites before. However, this is the first time that they've received a cash reward.
#4
Facebook's bug bounty program has around 13,000 submissions from people like Jani in 2015 alone. 526 of these were, in fact, valid reports. Mashable reported that ‘in 2015, Facebook paid out a total of $936,000 to 210 researchers, averaging about $1,780 per submission'.
If you attempt to hack Facebook, as long as you comply with their guidelines they won't prosecute you.
You could be the next winner of a lot of cash!
