New Delhi: An Indian engineering graduate has located a bug on the largest social networking website Facebook. The bug used to allow any user to delete photographs of other accounts. The company has promised to pay a bounty of $12,500 to the engineer who is still searching for job.
Arul Kumar, 21-year-old engineering graduate, is camping in Chennai as he is searching for job. He heard from somewhere that Facebook pays for identifying and locating any bug that hampers the performance of the website. He found his first bounty last month and was promised a bounty of $ 1500. This month he surely hit the jackpot as he found the bug that hurt the website big way. The website is going to pay Rs. 8 lakhs to the engineer.
"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," Arul told TOI from Chennai, where he is looking for a job. "I started looking for bugs and learned programming and networking through tutorials on the web. The bug that I found on Facebook doesn't require some technical wizardry. I found it because I keep an open eye when I use web services."
His claims were first rejected by the Facebook staffers. However, he made video and deleted pictures from Mark Zuckurberg’s account. The team approved his bug immediately and agreed to pay the hefty sum. He says he would support his father, who owns a small shop in Salem district in Tamil Nadu, with the bounty money.
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