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Young man wins 21 thousand euros for discovering Instagram security flaw

Although the news of hackers taking advantage of the security flaws of large companies They are usually the most striking (this year Twitter suffered), there are also a large number of users who help these companies to discover their problems. For example, in the last week a young man of just 14 years old has won 21 thousand euros as a prize for his contribution to Instagram.

Andres Alonso Bie Pérez is a 14-year-old Brazilian who has become news after winning a prize of 21 thousand euros from Facebook after helping uncover a security breach he found on the Instagram photo and video social network and reporting the issue to the company’s security team.

Facebook has a bounty program

Andres Alonso Bie Pérez

Andres Alonso Bie Pérez, the young Brazilian awarded by Facebook

Currently, there are several companies that have different programs that financially reward any external person who is capable of reporting vulnerabilities that they have not yet detected. Apparently this young South American I’ve been looking for bugs on Mark Zuckerberg’s platform for a long time.

However, Andres Alonso Bie Pérez found this security breach as a consequence of carrying out another activity: creating a mobile application. He discovered that it was feasible to send malicious code through a filter, which could give access to Instagram accounts through the platform’s website.

“I was making an application that needs to integrate with the Instagram filters and I needed to know how to create the filter links. For this I had to study the application and I saw that it had the possibility of being a failure. I tried it and it worked, ”he explained in a later interview.

According to the young man, he expected to receive a maximum of 900 euros for his discovery., since usually the rewards that Facebook gives to this type of users are around 1,300 euros on average. “I did not expect such a high prize,” he said, still amazed, while now he wants to use this amount to buy a new computer and save the rest for the future.

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