Found out the defect of “Instagram”, company rewards 10-year-old with a large sum

Various technology companies have always offered rich rewards to people who have managed to detect defects in the use of social networks. The recent discovery of a defect was made by a 10-year-old boy from Finland, who received from the social network “Instagram” stands at $10,000. The boy named Jan has managed to detect a defect in the safety of the most used social network even though he still doesn't have an account on “Instagram.

The Finnish baby has discovered a network problem that allowed him to erase any comment made on the Instagram. “I could eliminate any users, even Justin Bieber” himself, he said in an interview given to Finnish magazine “lalhti”.

Shortly after this discovery, Jan and his family have informed Facebook, which owns “Instagram”, via an email and there the boy has proven his discovery by deleting a Facebook comment made by a testing profile. Immediately after the solution of the problem came the well - deserved reward.

Jan is not the first child to enter the company's bonus program, but at the moment he is the youngest. So far Facebook has paid a total of $4.3m for about 800 “leaks of this”.

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