10-year-old Jani, who is not even old enough to sign up on Facebook or instagram according minimum age policy is a wonder kid with the brain of a real genius!. His the youngest person to received $10,000 from Instagram after he impressed its owner, Mark Zuckerberg, by hacking Instagram, the photo-sharing application owned by Facebook.

Young Jani who lives in Helsinki, Finland, got into Instagram from the backdoor and discovered that he could actually delete other people’s comments from Instagram when he put a malicious code into the comment field of the application.

He reported to Instagram about the technical fault by email, offered a proof by deleting a message on one of Facebook’s test Instagram accounts and after a few days, Instagram replied him and fixed the problem.

Facebook has been running its “bug bounty program” since 2011, rewarding hackers when they report tech and security problems. So the rewarded him $10,000 for the bug bounty.

Jani confirmed what he said: “I would have been able to eliminate anyone, even Justin Bieber.”

Jani also wishes to become a security researcher. “It would be my dream job. Security is very important,” he was quoted as saying.

He plans to use the rewarded money to buy a new bicycle, a football and computers for his two brothers.

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