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03-09-2016, 01:32 PM
Indian techie finds bug that let him hack anyone's Facebook account, gets $15,000 award
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An Indian white hat ****** from Bengaluru was awarded Rs 1 million (approximately $15,000) after he found a bug in Facebook's login system. Anand Prakash found a security issue that enabled ******s to access a user's photos, message and debit and credit card details.
See also: Facebook bug lets you see how many people viewed your post (http://mashable.com/2015/10/15/facebook-bug-view-counts/)
A security engineer with Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, Prakash discovered that he could reset any Facebook account's password by brute on beta.facebook.com and mbasic.beta.facebook.com. He also demonstrated the flaw in a video.
He reported the issue to Facebook on Feb. 22 and got a response from the company on Mar. 2, awarding him a bounty for his work Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/india-******-facebook-award/)
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An Indian white hat ****** from Bengaluru was awarded Rs 1 million (approximately $15,000) after he found a bug in Facebook's login system. Anand Prakash found a security issue that enabled ******s to access a user's photos, message and debit and credit card details.
See also: Facebook bug lets you see how many people viewed your post (http://mashable.com/2015/10/15/facebook-bug-view-counts/)
A security engineer with Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, Prakash discovered that he could reset any Facebook account's password by brute on beta.facebook.com and mbasic.beta.facebook.com. He also demonstrated the flaw in a video.
He reported the issue to Facebook on Feb. 22 and got a response from the company on Mar. 2, awarding him a bounty for his work Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/india-******-facebook-award/)
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