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Why did Instagram give a Reward of 20 lakh Rupees to this Indian Hacker?

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Why did Instagram give a Reward of 20 lakh Rupees to this Indian Hacker? Indian hackers are top of earning bounty from Facebook Bounty of crores rupees i.e. rewards to Indian Hackers. In fact, tech companies such as  Facebook run bug bounty programs , whereby loopholes, which are also called bugs, are rewarded for finding. Recently, Facebook increased bug bounty for account takeover. A computer science student from Tamil Nadu, Laxman Muthiah , has exposed one of the biggest drawbacks of Instagram. Under this drawback, an Instagram account could be hacked. There was no need for the user’s concert for this. Facebook and Instagram corrected this flaw, and Laxman has given a reward of 30,000 dollars (approximately 20.56 lakhs) to Facebook. According to Laxman, he has found a bug in Instagram that is in the way of resetting passwords. He said that he could hack any Instagram account because of this bug. 26-year-old Laxman Muthiah has said during the talks with Tech till d