A 10-year-old boy has been rewarded a bug bounty of $10,000 (£6,900) after he discovered a flaw in Instagram's servers that let him delete users' comments from them.
The Finnish boy called Jani, who is not yet old enough to have an Instagram account of his own, claimed that he was able to delete comments and captions on high profile accounts, including that of Justin Bieber.
Jani didn't actually breach any user information on Instagram's servers, but demonstrated the hack by deleting comment on a test account.
After finding the vulnerability, Jani sent an email to Instagram.
Instagram responded that it had fixed the security flaw and rewarded Jani with the bounty.
Jani and his twin brother started developing their technical skills by coding games.
"Then I started to take an interest in information security and
started watching videos on YouTube," said Jani.
The boys' father was unaware that his children had such advanced skills, and was shocked to hear that Jani had managed to hack Instagram.
"I was quite surprised that Jani had learnt so much," said Marko,
Jani's father, speaking to Finnish publication Iltalehti .
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