For some of us, $10,000 is enough money to pay for a car or a portion of our tuition. But, for a ten-year-old boy named Jani, getting $10,000 seemed like the perfect opportunity for him to buy a football and a brand new bike.
According to The Washington Post, the Finnish tween, whose full name hasn’t been revealed at the request of his parents, has officially been named the youngest person to ever be rewarded by Facebook’s Bug Bounty Program—A program that pays people who find problems within Facebook and its apps. Jani hacked Instagram and found an particularly bad flaw. According to Jani, the bug gave him the ability to delete comments posted by other users, as Instagram’s system of checking users to make sure they had the authority to delete comments wasn’t working properly. He used Justin Bieber as an example, though he held off on deleting any of the Biebs’ comments and tested the flaw on a comment that Instagram posted to a decoy account instead.
The funny thing about this entire ordeal is the fact that Jani was able to discover the glitch despite the fact that he is not even old enough to have an account on the photo-sharing app, being just three years shy of the minimum age. Still, Jani has plans for the money he’s about to receive, and those include buying some new soccer gear as well as purchasing new computers for himself and his twin brother.