Facebook has paid $30000 to an Indian tech expert who discovered a major security flaw in the Instagram app. Days ago, 21-year-old Mayur Furtade, who discovered a major security breach on popular social media site Instagram, was offered $ 30,000 (approximately Rs 22 lakh) by Facebook.
The problem was found in the privacy feature of the Instagram account.
Firthade found that anyone can view private, archived posts, stories, reels and IGTV without having to follow the user, even when their profile is private. It is known that Facebook has solved this problem.
Anyone could read users' data kept private. "Anyone with technical information could find a valid CDN URL of archived stories and posts," Fartade said in a blog post.
It could also be used to gain access to Facebook pages attached to an Instagram account using information obtained from Instagram.
Fartade first reported about the Instagram bug on April 16 through the Facebook Bug Bounty program. On April 19, he received a response from Facebook. Asked to provide more information about this. The issues reported on April 29 were resolved. On June 15, he received Rs 22 lakh for finding the bug.
