A scholar, Neeraj Sharma from Jaipur, has acquired a reward of Rs 38 lakh from Instagram for saving social media accounts of crores of individuals from being hacked.

As per data, Sharma discovered a bug in Instagram because of which thumbnails may very well be modified in any person’s account with out login and password.

Sharma apprised Instagram and Facebook about this error and after discovering it genuine, he was rewarded with Rs 38 lakh for this work.

He stated, “There was a bug in Facebook’s Instagram, via which the thumbnail of the reel may have been modified from any account. All it required was the media ID of the account to vary it regardless of how sturdy the password of the account holder is.

“In December final 12 months, I began discovering fault with my Instagram account. After numerous arduous work, on the morning of January 31, I got here to know in regards to the (bug) mistake of Instagram. After this, I despatched a report back to Facebook about this error on Instagram at night time and acquired a reply from them after three days. It requested me to share a demo,” he stated.

Sharma confirmed them in 5 minutes by altering the thumbnail. They authorized his report and on the night time of May 11, he obtained a mail from Facebook during which they knowledgeable him that he ahs been given a reward of $ 45,000 (about Rs 35 lakh). At the identical time, in lieu of the delay of 4 months in giving the reward, Facebook additionally gave $ 4500 (about Rs 3 lakh) as a bonus.

(Except for the headline and canopy picture, the remainder of this IANS article is un-edited)

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