Technical / 21 year old Indian student found a big flaw in Instagram, FB gave 22 lakh rupees

Indian Hacker has given a reward of Rs 22 lakh to Facebook. In fact, an Indian Developer named Peacock has highlighted serious drawbacks in Facebook platform Instagram. Due to this drawback, no one could see the private account on Instagram. Peacock told Aajtak.in that he is a student of computer science. Mayur is a resident of Maharashtra.

Private account on Instagram can only see both accounts are following each other. But any private account could be seen due to bug in Instagram. About this, Mayur gave information to Facebook and Facebook believed that this was the drawback in Instagram. Peacock told us that this is his first bounty. Earlier, the Peacock had told the flaws in the government sites, but the government does not give it a prize.

It is worth mentioning that now this Khami has been cured with Instagram and Mayur has been told about the prize through email on behalf of Facebook. Facebook has written in the email sent to Peacock, "After reviewing this issue, we have decided that you will be given a bounty of $ 30,000 '

Facebook has said that the issues that Mayur has done highlight and has reported Facebook because of the wrong intention, users could take advantage of it on Instagram. However, the attacher needs to be special media id. The company has fixed it.

Mayur had made Facebook about this Khani of Instagram on April 16. After this the company patched it till June 15. Normally until the problem is resolved, the Bounty Hunters are said to keep the secret so that no wrong advantage.

Even if a private account has not been followed due to this bug, users could see another account. Like those accounts, comments, saved counters could be seen. According to Peacock, he also disclosed another Andpoint on April 23.

Talking about a bug bounty program, big companies hold these programs. Under this, these companies give this reward to report the drawback on the website or another platform. For this, it is to tell the company about the drawback or bugs and it has to be given a dick. After this the company decides how serious this is. Looking at the severity of the drawback or bug, the reward is determined.

Even before that in India, people have been given reward to Facebook and other companies. Not only this, in the case of finding a bug in Facebook, Indian Developers or Hackers are quite ahead.