A talented youth won $9,000 bug bounty
from Facebook.Inc after he figured out a way
to delete users' comments from Instagram's servers, Mashable reports.
The youngster, a 10-year-old Finnish kid named Jani,
claimed the security flaw he discovered could 
even allow him to delete Justin Bieber's 
Instagram comments and captions, should he 
feel so inclined. Jani showed off his hack to
the Instagram team by deleting a comment they
posted on a test account. As the boy's father
told the Finnish news site Iltalehti, Jani and
his twin brother are fairly prolific at poking 
holes in seemingly secure websites, but the Instagram
hack was their biggest to date.
The $10,000 prize was part of Facebook's Bug Bounty 
program, which offers rewards to White Hat hackers
and other researchers who find bugs or security
flaws in their code. In 2015, Facebook reportedly 
paid out $936,000 to 210 different researchers, out of 
a grand total of 13,000 submissions.
According to the boy's father, Jani and his twin brother have
found security flaws in websites before, but they haven't been
significant enough to justify a payout, until this one. 
Facebook's bug bounty program welcomes anyone to find bugs 
and flaws, and offers cash rewards to problems that are significant,
similar to Google's own security rewards program. According to the
most recent release from Facebook, the company received over 
13,000 submissions from researchers in 2015 alone, 
526 of which were valid reports.





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