A screen shot shows the Instagram account of Pope Francis (Franciscus) launched today on March 19, 2016. The date for the pontiff’s debut on the celebrity-dominated social medium was chosen by the 79-year-old himself as it marks the third anniversary of his inauguration as the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. / AFP / STR
A 10-year-old Finnish boy has received 10,000 dollars from Instagram after finding a security fault in the service, media report said on Tuesday.
He found that he could delete other people’s comments when he inputted malicious code into the comment field of the application.
Jani informed Instagram about the technical fault by email, after a few days, Instagram replied to him that the flaw was fixed, and as a reward, he received 10,000 dollars from Instagram.
The boy said he had been enthusiastic about coding games for years.
He had been building up his skills on his own with his twin brother.
Jani’s father said that he was very surprised that his son had learned so much about coding and data security.
Meanwhile the boy said he dreamed of becoming an information security expert in the future.
“It would be my dream job; security is really important,’’ Jani said.
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