A 10-year-old Finnish boy named Jani has been given $10,000 (£7,000) after he found a security flaw in image-sharing social network Instagram.
The boy, who technically is not allowed to even join the site for another three years, discovered a bug that allowed him to delete comments made by other users.
The issue was “quickly” fixed after being discovered, said Facebook, which owns Instagram.
Jani was paid soon after – making him the youngest ever recipient of the firm’s “bug bounty” prize.
After discovering the flaw in February, he emailed Facebook.
Security engineers at the company set up a test account for Jani to prove his theory – which he did.
The boy, from Helsinki, told Finnish newspaper Iltalehti he planned to use the money to buy a new bike, football equipment and computers for his brothers.
Facebook told the BBC it had paid $4.3m to bug bounty recipients since 2011.
Many companies offer a financial incentive for security professionals – and young children, evidently – to share flaws with the company, rather than selling them on the black market.
That’s crazily cool.
Smart young lad, there are really brilliant minds out there…
Manny the long lost MDB’er