Reportedly 21 Year old Arul Kumar, an engineering graduate from Hindusthan Institute of Technology founded a critical bug on social networking site Facebook and for the same he has won the bounty of worth $12,500 (around 8,25,000 Indian rupees) from Facebook.
Arul is an engineering graduate, he completed his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication engineering from Hindusthan Institute of Technology few months ago .
“Earlier this year, I heard about the Facebook bug bounty programme through which the company rewards people find who flaws on the website. Then I came to know about some Indian hackers who hunt for bugs and are rewarded,” said Arul.
Arul currently lives in Chennai and searching for a job.
Arul submitted a critical bug on Facbook, that allowed anyone to delete any photo hosted on the social networking website. He Submitted the bug through a page that Facebook has set up for hackers. Initially Facebook team rejected Arul’s claim
“I messed around with this for the last 40 minutes but cannot delete any victim’s photo. All I can do is if the victim clicks the link and chooses to remove the photo it will be removed, which is not a security (vulnerability) obviously,” a member of Facebook security team wrote in an email.
Arul, however, created a video, showing how he could delete any Facebook photo. “I made this video and demonstrated the bug using the profile id of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a photo hosted by him. To recreate the flaw, I performed all the steps except the last one that would have deleted one of the photos hosted by Zuckerberg,” Arul said.
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