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10 year-old gets 9,000 euros from Instagram for security flaw
2016-05-04 11:00:46 Post No. 54373380
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10 year-old gets 9,000 euros from Instagram for security flaw
Anonymous
2016-05-04 11:00:46
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A 10 year-old boy from Helsinki was awarded a nine thousand euro reward for revealing a security flaw in the Instagram photo sharing app.
Without much technical information revealed, the tabloid Iltalehti reports that in March of this year, the Helsinki-based 10 year-old found that by placing malicious code into the application's comments field, he could delete other people's comments.
"I found I could delete other people's comments from there," the boy is quoted by the paper.
The young computer expert notified Instagram by email and a few days later the Facebook-owned company forwarded him a thank you payment of just over nine thousand euros.
Although this was the first time he has received a reward for his efforts, it was not the first occasion that he had revealed security flaws in websites.
The boy's father told the paper he was surprised at just how much his son had learned about IT security.
The boy says he dreams of a future career as a computer security expert.
"It would be my dream job, security is really important," the 10 year-old told the paper.
http://www.iltalehti.fi/digi/2016050221506011_du.shtml
