


'I would have been able to delete anyone's comments, even Justin Bieber,' the boy told Finnish newspaper Iltalehti. He found and reported a flaw in Instagram's API which is supposed to check if someone has the authority to delete a comment before communicating the request with the server. Ten year old cyber security prodigy Jani – his parents declined to dislose his full name – has at least three years until he can legally join the social network, but found a flaw in the Facebook-owned Instagram platform, earning him $10,000 in rewards.

10 year old cyber security prodigy wins $10,000 from Facebook for exposing flawġ0 year old Jani from Finland has a great career ahead of him as a white hack hackerĪ hacker from Finland has become the youngest ever person to win a 'bug bounty' from Facebook for uncovering a security flaw.
