Zonel Sougaijam :: Facebook Hall of Fame for discovering Bug in WhatsApp
- In spot No. 16 as of June 7 2019 -
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Zonel Sougaijam :: Facebook Hall of Fame
A Brief Profile:
Name: Zonel Sougaijam
Age: 22
Finished Btech in Civil Engineering
S/O Sougaijam Voumeshwar Singh and Arambam Tilotama Devi
Address: Wangkhei Koijam Leikai,
Imphal East
Link of Facebook Hall of Fame Page:
https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks/
Zonel Sougaijam's description on his achievements:
To start off even though I studied Civil Engineering I have been very much interested in stuffs related to tech from my childhood days and I am constantly always learning new things so that I have the full command of the tech products be it the hardware or the software that I used all from the internet and I really enjoy doing so.
So a few months back, I found a way which would let whatsapp user upgrade whatsapp’s voice call into a video call without the authorization of the user on the other end. Simply put you can see what the other person is doing without them knowing about it through the front camera of their smart phone provided you have to be in a voice call first.
In fact during a whatsapp’s 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.
I came to know it was a serious bug and I reported right away to facebook through the Facebook’s bug bounty program where you can report bugs which poses security threat to facebook related products. After 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 fixed.
And about two weeks later they told me that the bug has been fixed and they will update with a bounty decision soon. So, I checked myself and the bug got fixed. Few days later they decided to award me 5000 USD which is roughly about Rs. 3.4 lakhs.
The bounty amount is decided by the degree of severeness the bug possess, quality of the report and many other factors the minimum amount which a person can get if his or her bug is identified as security threat is 500 USD which is roughly Rs. 34000.
They also put me on the facebook hall of fame page which is basically a page made by facebook and it has the list of the people who has help them find such critical bugs and I was at the no. 10 spots then and now at 16 (*** as on June 7 2019) .
I was, to be completely honest very proud of myself to be among the top white hackers of facebook for the year 2019 and also as a Manipuri who has help in protecting privacies of millions of users.
And lastly I also want to thank facebook for striving so hard to protect the privacies of its users and creating a very user friendly environment.
Link of Facebook Hall of Fame Page:
https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks/
* This information is provided by Zonel Sougaijam who can be contacted at zonelsougai(AT)gmail(DOT)com
This was posted on 08th June 2019
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