Facebook rewards Rs 22 lakh to Indian hacker for reporting dangerous Instagram bug
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An Indian ethical hacker has won Rs 22 lakh for discovering and reporting malicious bugs in the Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform, Instagram. Solapur-based Mayur Fartade discovered and reported to Facebook that a bug in Instagram is erroneously allowing anyone to access a user’s archived posts, Stories, Reels and IGTV, even if the profile is set to private. Facebook fixed the bug on June 15.