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A 10-Year-Old Hacked Instagram

10-year-old Finnish boy Jani found a bug that even Facebook’s engineering team missed. Jani and his twin brother are both adept at identifying bugs, but this is the first they have been paid for finding a bug. The $10,000 came from Facebooks bug bounty program, which gave him 5.6 times their average payout and a fun story to tell his kids in 30 years. After discovering the bug, the pre-teen emailed Instagram, who issued a patch within days.”]

Source: https://gizmodo.com/a-10-year-old-hacked-instagram-1774526133

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