Earlier this month a 10-year-old Finnish boy received a delightful surprise from Facebook: $10,000, as a reward for hacking into its subsidiary Instagram and revealing a weakness in its data security. The loophole revealed by the boy genius, who is too young to even have accounts on either site, enabled him to delete user messages on the site, as he told the Finnish paper Iltalehti.
The reward for young Jani (his last name isn’t being shared at the request of his parents) is part of Facebook’s Bug Bounty program. In fact several of the technology titans and other business behemoths are tapping the seedy talents of the hacking community to locate weaknesses in their data security and services in exchange for rewards, from a T-shirt to actual money.
Speaking of seedy, the latest to jump on the bandwagon with a munificent bounty program is Pornhub, the self-declared biggest porn site on the planet, with 60 million users. The site is starting its rewards at $50 but they can reach $25,000, depending on the hole the hackers find and the potential havoc it could wreak. For the full article click here
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