Facebook rewards 10-year-old security whiz who found flaw in Instagram

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Facebook has rewarded the boy who saved Instagram.

FACEBOOK has given a $13,300 reward to a 10-year-old boy who found a major flaw in Instagram that could let someone delete any comment on anyone’s account.
Venture Beat today has reported the story that first appeared in the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti of the boy who says he learnt his computer security skills by watching YouTube videos.
The boy, identified by the newspaper as Jani, reported the bug to Facebook by an email in which he demonstrated the flaw which let him delete any message.
“I would have been able to remove anyone, even Justin Bieber,” he told the Iltalehti newspaper.
Facebook, like other tech companies including Microsoft and Google, routinely pay rewards for people who identify software bugs. Earlier this year, Facebook said it had pad out more than US$4.3 million to more than 800 security researchers since 2011.
But some commentators have said the latest reward for identifying such a major flaw is inadequate considering Facebook bought Instagram for US$1 billion four years ago and it is currently valued at more than 50 times that amount.
Jani is reportedly the youngest person so far to receive a reward from Facebook for identifying a flaw in Instagram. He told the Finnish press that he spent the reward on a new bike and computers for his brothers.

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