{"id":4383,"date":"2019-06-14T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2019-06-14T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T11:12:48","slug":"zonel-sougaijam-from-manipur-rewarded-with-5000-for-discovering-whatsapp-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/zonel-sougaijam-from-manipur-rewarded-with-5000-for-discovering-whatsapp-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Zonel Sougaijam From Manipur Rewarded With $5000 For Discovering WhatsApp Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source:- thelivemirror.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> A 22-year-old engineer from Manipur named Zonel Sougaijam has been rewarded with $5000 (Rs. 3.4 lakh approx) for detecting a bug on WhatsApp. For this discovery, his name is now included in the \u201cFacebook Hall of Fame 2019\u201d. He is a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Civil Engineering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sougaijam told PTI, \u201cDuring 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported by IANS, Sougaijam wrote in a blog post, \u201cIn fact during a WhatsApp\u2019s video call say the other person turns his or her camera off for a reason and the video call gets paused, you can resume it without the other person even touching his or her smartphone,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI came to know it was a serious bug and I reported right away to Facebook through the Facebook\u2019s bug bounty programme where you can report bugs which poses security threat to Facebook related products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter few days of chatting about the bug and I also made a short video in which I explained to them how the bug is behaving. They told me that the bug was confirmed and they are working for a fix.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After two weeks, Facebook informed Sougaijam that the bug has been fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Rony K Roy and K.S. 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