Jani, the 10 year old that found a bug in Instagram, probably didn’t know you technically have to be 13 years old in order to even have an Instagram account. You may have to be 13 to have an account but there are no rules against age in the bug and hacking community. Jani found the glitch when he was able to delete any users comments off of Instagram. Jani says he was able to delete any text content he wished to, and although he didn’t proceed to delete any user text, he said if he wanted to he could have. The 10 year old, in true 10 year old fashion, related the severity of the bug to that of Justin Bieber, saying he could delete comments from anyone’s page, even Justin Bieber’s. Don’t worry Bieber fanatics, he resisted, and decided to rather exploit the bug to Facebook, wiping one of their comments from their test accounts and cashing in on $10,000.
The bug was detected by Jani in February, patched that same month, with his check in hand a month later. He has decided to buy himself a new soccer ball and bike. He also purchased two new computers for his brothers. Jani wishes to work as a security researcher when he is older, and we think he’s well on his way.
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