Flipkart engineer and part-time hacker in Bengaluru rewarded Rs 10 lakh for finding Facebook bug

A Bengaluru-based computer programmer has received $15,000 (around Rs 10 lakh) from social networking giant Facebook as reward, for reporting a bug through which he was able to hack into any Facebook account using relatively simple software.
Anand Prakash, a product security engineer at Flipkart, wrote in a blog post on February 22 that he had found a simple vulnerability that could have been used to hack into any user’s Facebook account to get access to credit or debit card details, perso