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10-year-old Hacks Instagram

Step aside Mark Zuckerberg, a new programming prodigy is in town. Jani is a 10-year-old Finnish boy who won a $10,000 prize for finding a glitch in the popular photo sharing application, Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. Jani’s last name is not being publicly released for privacy concerns. The glitch allowed users to put malicious code in the comments field on Instagram, that erased comments. "I wanted to see if Instagram's comment field could stand malicious code....

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