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Manipur Engineer Enters Facebook’s “Hall Of Fame 2019” By Discovering a Privacy Breach Bug

Manipur man detects WhatsApp bug, and enters Facebook ‘Hall of Fame’.


Zonel Sougaijam, a 22-year-old civil engineer, was recently honoured by Facebook for discovering a WhatsApp bug that violated the privacy of a user.

Mr. Sougaijam told PTI, in the wake of discovering the bug, that he had reported the issue to the Bug Bounty Program of the Facebook, which manages infringement of privacy matters, in March.

“During a voice call through WhatsApp, the bug used to allow the caller to upgrade it to a video call without the authorisation and knowledge of the receiver. The caller was then able to see what the other person was doing, violating the privacy of the receiver,” he said.

Zonel Sougaijam, the 22-year-old civil engineer

His report was hence acknowledged by the Facebook Security Team the immediate next day and its technical department fixed the bug under 15-20 days. The social media giant then proceeded to award him with a bounty of $5000 at the same time incorporating him in the 'Facebook Hall of Fame 2019', for detecting the WhatsApp bug.

Sougaijam's name is right now at the 16th position in a rundown of 94 people, in the 'Facebook Hall of Fame' for the current year.

Facebook had obtained Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. The organization has been entangled in data privacy concerns and political ramifications of its calculations throughout the most recent couple of years.


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