Kids these days are really smart when it comes to technology, like the six years old Hamza from Pakistan, who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, and the list goes on.
Today, we would talk about Jani, a 10 years old boy from Finland, which could hack Facebook’s Instagram. According to Android Authority, Jani found an exploit or simply a bug in Instagram that allowed him to delete any comment that he wanted to on the popular image sharing social site.
In order to confirm that he found the error for Facebook, the child deleted a comment that the company made on a test account. In response, the online social giant gave the hacking wonder a whopping $10,000 prize, through its bug bounty program.
The bug bounty program is Facebook initiative that offers cash rewards to anyone who is able to report and verify vulnerabilities. “Since it launched in 2011, our bug bounty program has received 2,400+ valid submissions and awarded more than $4.3 million to 800+ researchers around the world,” said Facebook.
“I would have been able to eliminate anyone,” Jani told the Finnish publication Iltalehti, “even Justin Bieber.”
The kid who is three years shy to open an Insta account says, the prize money will go toward football equipment and a new bicycle. Coming to how he got hacking skills, Jani said that he learned them after watching Youtube videos.
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