10-year-old resident of Finland named Yani became the youngest hacker, who received the award for services found in the Facebook vulnerability. The company paid the boy from Helsinki $ 10,000 for the discovery of security flaws in Instagram.
As reported by The Venture Beat, it is about to fail Instagram, thanks to which he could delete other people’s comments, inserting malicious code into the comments box. According to the student, if desired, he could make the attack even on the account of Justin Bieber, but instead I shared the issue with specialists of Instagram. And those, in turn, responded with generous gratitude, listing him $ 10,000.
The vulnerability was discovered in February what the child is immediately reported. In order to verify the presence of faults, a special test account. According to representatives of Facebook, the flaw was quickly fixed, immediately after which the boy got his reward.
Yani became the youngest man who discovered the fault in the social network. To him those were considered 13-year-old user. In August 2015 a British engineer Reza Maanden has discovered a vulnerability in the protection of personal data Facebook. In the social network setting “Who can search and find me?” the default is set to “All”. This means that to find the profile of anyone, despite the fact that he knows the phone number, even if the user does not publish this number on their page.
Part of the money, she is going to spend on buying the bike. But in the future he hopes to become a specialist in cyber security.
