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05-04-2016, 03:26 AM
A 10-year-old hacked Instagram so Facebook gave him $10,000
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Before he even reached the age requirement to make a Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) account, a 10-year-old found a major flaw in Instagram (http://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), earning him a cool $10,000 from Facebook.*
Jani (his parents withheld his last name, figured out a way to get into Instagram's servers and delete text posted by Instagram users, Finnish news site Iltalehti reported (http://www.iltalehti.fi/digi/2016050221506011_du.shtml).
SEE ALSO: Here's how much Google paid that guy who bought google.com for a minute (http://mashable.com/2016/01/28/google-rewarded-domain/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
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. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/facebook-instagram-hack/)
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Before he even reached the age requirement to make a Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) account, a 10-year-old found a major flaw in Instagram (http://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), earning him a cool $10,000 from Facebook.*
Jani (his parents withheld his last name, figured out a way to get into Instagram's servers and delete text posted by Instagram users, Finnish news site Iltalehti reported (http://www.iltalehti.fi/digi/2016050221506011_du.shtml).
SEE ALSO: Here's how much Google paid that guy who bought google.com for a minute (http://mashable.com/2016/01/28/google-rewarded-domain/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
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. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/facebook-instagram-hack/)
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