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Indian Techie recieves $12500 for discovering Facebook Bug

Laxman Muthiyah from India has received a 12,500 dollar bounty for discovering a Facebook bug that allowed Indian-Techie-recieves-$12500-for-discovering-Facebook-BugIndian-Techie-recieves-$12500-for-discovering-Facebook-Bughackers to arbitrarily delete photos from accounts.

According to TechCrunch, the bug allowed anyone with a bit of technical know-how to delete any photo on Facebook.

Facebook fixed the bug shortly after it was discovered.

Laxman has a breakdown of how the bug, that deletes another users’ photos, works.

Source: Business Standard

Date: Feb 14, 2015

 

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