Here’s why Facebook gave this 20-year old hacker from Kerala Rs 10.70 lakh
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Arun detected the critical bug in Facebook Business Manager on August 29. This vulnerability would allow a hacker to take control over Facebook in less than 10 seconds. It would allow a hacker to manipulate the page of any Facebook user.
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Interestingly, this is not the first time Arun has hunted bugs. In the past, he has had detected numerous bugs in Google and Facebook. Infact, Facebook had paid him a Rs 7 lakh bounty in April this year. In August, they had invited him for a meeting with its security members at Las Vegas along with three other hackers from different countries. He was also awarded the tenth place in the Facebook's hall of fame of the white hat hackers. He is the only Indian to be honoured in the website's hall of fame.
In the last three years, the young hacker has managed to amass approximately Rs 30 lakhs in payouts for hunting down bugs.
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