10-year-old hacker

A 10-year-old hacker has been awarded
thousands of dollars for breaking into Instagram
– a service he’s too young even to sue.
The Finnish security expert found a trick that
would allow anyone to delete comments that had
been left by users.
The boy – named as Jani in local reports that did
not reveal his second name – said that the hack
allowed anyone’s comments to be deleted, “even
Justin Bieber”.

The hack wins the young expert $10,000 as part
of Facebook’s bug bounty programme. That hands
out prizes to people who find flaws in the
company’s security so that they can be found and
fixed.
Jani is now the youngest ever person to win one
of the prizes that Facebook gives out for hacking
its products. He beats the 13-year-old who
previously broke into a Facebook product.