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Researcher nets major reward for finding Facebook bug able to unlock the gates to its internal systems

Facebook on laptop.

  • A security flaw found in Facebook's ad platform has been fixed by Meta
  • The researcher who discovered the flaw was awarded a $100,000 bug bounty
  • The flaw allowed the researcher to effectively take control of a Facebook server
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