A ten year old Finnish hacker called Jani has received a $10,000 reward from Facebook, the parent company of Instagram, for discovering a security bug on the photo sharing site and informing them of it.
Jani found a way to delete comments of other users due to the bug he found.
He reported the issue to Instagram, who tested it to be sure what he was saying was true. When it was verified, the company proceeded to fix it.
He was then paid $10,000 as a ‘bug bounty’ by Facebook, despite not even being old enough to be on the site he hacked. He is by far the youngest recipient of the so-called bug bounty prize.
The price is a system put in place by several tech companies to serve as an incentive to those who discover security flaws to report it to them rather than sell it on the Black market. According to the BBC, Facebook has paid out $4.3m in bug bounty prizes since 2011.