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10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - mothered - 05-05-2016
Greetings everyone,
The thread's title says It all. Have a read of this, It's quite Interesting:
Quote:A 10-year-old Finnish kid just became the youngest ever to get a bug bounty from Facebook. Jani, from Helsinki, has surprised family, friends and teachers by demonstrating how he could delete any comment from the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram – a feat for which he’s been rewarded $10,000.
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/05/04/10-year-old-gets-10k-for-comment-deleting-instagram-bug/
RE: 10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - m0dem - 05-05-2016
Wow, that's pretty amazing.
Kudos to him.
RE: 10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - Ice - 05-05-2016
Congrats to that child honestly... Wish i could make 10k like that haha
RE: 10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - Satan - 05-05-2016
Could possibly be just header editing. I did the same kind of thing using headers, for a different site.
$10k is a lot of money for what I'd consider a trivial exploit. Perhaps they awarded as much because of his age.
RE: 10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - Skryptec - 05-05-2016
That is a new gaming setup for him, xD
RE: 10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - Oni - 05-06-2016
Paypal doesn't pay minors for their bug bounty:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/29/paypal-refuses-to-pay-bug-finding-teen/
RE: 10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - m0dem - 05-06-2016
(05-06-2016, 12:30 AM)Oni Wrote: Paypal doesn't pay minors for their bug bounty:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/29/paypal-refuses-to-pay-bug-finding-teen/
losers...
RE: 10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - insidious - 05-06-2016
That kid is going to be swimming in Minecraft and PC parts galore when he's paid out.
If only I had 10K as a then year old....
RE: 10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - Pirate - 05-06-2016
Did they ever reveal how the vuln was performed? (Since its patched now obviously)
RE: 10 Year Old Awarded 10k For Instagram Vulnerability - Blue - 05-06-2016
Wow, what a lucky ass kid. Props to him.