GUWAHATI: Facebook has honoured a 22-year-old boy from Manipur, Zonel Sougaijam for spotting a technical glitch in the recent update of WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by the social media giant.
The anomaly Zonel found lets users change voice call through the application into a video call, without the authorisation of the user on the other end. This feature violates the privacy policy.
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Facebook recognized him for discovering and reporting the bug.
As soon as Zonel found the technical glitch, he reported it to the Bug Bounty Program of Facebook. The bug was fixed after the technical department confirmed it.
Facebook thus decided to honour him by awarding him a cash award of $5000 (approximately INR 3,47,086) and by listing him in Facebook’s official “Hall of Fame” page, which currently has 96 names for the year 2019. He stands at 16th position in the list.
Zonel Sougaijam is a civil engineering student from Punjab Technical University.