Capitivating: Meet 10 Year Old Boy who discovered Instagram security fault and got $10,000

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The is the news about the young boy who tried putting a malicious code into instagram and he deleted comments from another person's post and then contacted instagram via email. Hear his confession

“I tried if Instagram’s comment field could handle harmful code. It didn’t. I found out I can delete other people’s comments from there,” Jani told Iltalehti Newspaper.

“I could’ve deleted anyone’s, like Justin Bieber’s comments from there.”

A few days after he informed Instagram of the technical fault, he received a reply that the flaw had been fixed, and as a reward, he received $10,000.

The boy said he had been enthusiastic about coding games for years.

“Then I started to get interested on information security and started watching Youtube videos on it,” he said.

He had been building up his skills on his own with his twin brother.

Jani’s father expressed surprise that his son had learned so much about coding and data security.

“I was very surprised that Jani has gotten so far already. I have no idea about that social media stuff,” the father said.
Credit: TheCable