Instagram just paid $10,000 to a hacker that’s not even old enough to sign up

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by Sindy Cator on May 3, 2016 at 5:10 pm

Are you smarter than a 10-year-old? Probably not the one who just made a cool $10,000 from Facebook for showing you could hack into Instagram and delete comments made by users. Speaking to local publication Iltalehti, Jani (whose last name hasn’t been released) said (in Finnish): “I would have been able to eliminate anyone, even Justin Bieber.” The Finnish kid has just become the youngest ever recipient of cash from Facebook for hacking its products. The previous record was set by a 13-year-old back in 2013, meaning this latest young hacker is the first person to crack a Facebook product that they aren’t technically even able…