When a hacker gets caught, one usually gets jailed. However, on rare occasions, one just might receive a cash bounty for being too curious. This is what happened to a 10-year-old boy from Finland who was awarded a cool $10k for his hacking efforts which in turn exposed serious security flaws on Instagram.
Jani, the 10-year-old Finnish boy who's last name was not revealed for privacy reasons, single-handedly found a bug on Instagram, Facebook's photo-sharing app, reports Fortune. Apparently, the boy's curious nature led him to explore Instagram's safeguards to see if it can withstand some simple malicious coding. It turns out it couldn't. pls read the rest at:http://www.techcrux.net/2016/05/facebook-gave-10k-to-finnish-10-year.html#more