A UK researcher has been awarded a 20,000 reward for information leading to the discovery of a serious flaw in Facebook’s security system. Gave This is the most popular social networking site in the world. The bug in the service’s password reset system is the user’s account Hack Could be used to do. That person named Jack Whitton Facebook When researching a text messaging system, be sure to check for bugs.

On May 23, 2013, he reported the bug to Facebook, and by May 26, the company had acknowledged the error and fixed it. And recently he gave a 20,000 bounty considering the potential damage caused by the bug Facebook.

In the security community, Mr. Whitton is known as a “white hat” hacker – that is, one who discovers security flaws, does not use them for any unethical purposes, but passes the information to the appropriate authorities.

Another group, known as “black hat” hackers, sell large sums of money to cyber criminals for their skills and information about such bugs.