New York: The social networking giant has paid $10,000 to a 10-year-old boy for spotting a bug in Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram.
According to a report in technology website VentureBeat.com, Jani from Finland discovered the security flaw in Instagram on his own.
<img title="Instagram" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/sep/shi_instaahigh%20main.jpg" alt="Instagram" width="666" height="338" /> Pic/Jagran Post
He found a bug in Instagram which requires you to be at least 13 before even signing up, that let him delete any comment on the social network.
&ldquo;He reported the bug by email, offered proof by deleting a message on one of Facebook&rsquo;s test Instagram accounts and it was fixed in February. Facebook paid him the bug bounty in March,&rdquo; the report added.
&ldquo;I would have been able to remove anyone, even Justin Bieber,&rdquo; the report quoted Jani as saying.
The Finnish boy wishes to become a security researcher. &ldquo;It would be my dream job. Security is very important,&rdquo; he was quoted as saying.
He used the reward money to buy a new bike, football gear and computers for his two brothers.
Like Google and Microsoft, Facebook also has a bug bounty programme.
In February, Facebook announced that it had paid $4.3 million in rewards to more than 800 security researchers for over 2,400 submissions since launching its bug bounty programme in 2011.
In 2015, 210 researchers received $936,000 with an average payout of $1,780.

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