$20000 given to Jack Whitton for finding flaw in facebook

Facebook, the leading giant in terms of social networking has hit the news shores once again. As per the reports develop a British man has been given a $20,000 reward from Facebook after finding a bug. The bug which was detected was which if left undetected could have left users’ accounts exposed to hackers.

Graham Cluley, a security expert, said that the Facebook bug would have been of great interest to cybercriminals and Facebook should be “extremely grateful” that Mr Whitton had decided to report it to them.

“This security flaw is terrible. It should never have existed. It’s a gaping hole, thank goodness it’s closed now. We are really relying on the goodwill of researchers.”

The name of the person was, "Jack Whitton" who is a security researcher, discovered the flaw within Facebook’s text messaging system.

Mr Whitton, aged 22, has been thanked by Facebook and placed on the hall of fame for “responsible disclosures”.

Very good , it is nothing for them, this issue report has saved their millions of dollars so if they gave $20k to that guy then nothing big. Still a cool thing for him.