10 Year Old Hacker Gets $10,000 For Finding Flaw With Instagram

A 10 year old hacker just got $10,000 from Facebook for discovering a major flaw in Instagram. The boy found he was able to alter code on Instagram’s servers and was able to delete comments posted by any account. “I would have been able to eliminate anyone, even Justin Bieber”. He proved this by deleting a comment Instagram had posted on a test account. “The problem lay in a private application programming interface that wasn’t properly checking the person deleting the comment was the same one who posted it,” reports Forbes. Jani uncovered the flaw early this year, and Facebook confirmed the bug was patched in early February. Jani’s payout, which was issued in March, makes him the youngest hacker to claim Facebook’s bug bounty. The title was previously held by a 13 year old. Jani plans to spend his earnings on a bike, a football, and new computers for his brothers.