{"id":163787,"date":"2016-05-04T08:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163787"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T06:29:31","slug":"10-year-old-hacks-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/163787-10-year-old-hacks-instagram.html","title":{"rendered":"10-year-old hacks Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iltalehti.fi\/digi\/2016050221506011_du.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Finnish news site Iltalehti reported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that a 10-year-old has found a major flaw in Instagram, earning him $10,000 from Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Only known as Jani, he said he used malicious code which allowed him to delete other people\u2019s comments from Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Jani discovered the vulnerability in March, and alerted Instagram of the security flaw via email.<\/p>\n<p>The company responded, thanking him for the information and rewarding\u00a0him with $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Jani used the money to buy a new bicycle and football, and new computers for him and his brothers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/162390-the-biggest-security-mistakes-you-make-when-shopping-online.html\"><strong>The biggest security mistakes you make when shopping online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/161932-government-says-online-school-admission-system-is-secure-except-it-isnt.html\"><strong>Government says online school admission system is secure \u2013 except it isn\u2019t<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/100644-single-line-of-code-that-broke-online-security.html\"><strong>Single line of code that broke online security<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-year-old has found a major flaw in Instagram, earning him $10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":159804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,161,10424],"class_list":["post-163787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163793,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163787\/revisions\/163793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}