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FACEBOOK AWARDS RESEARCHER $100,000 FOR FINDING BUG THAT GRANTED INTERNAL ACCESS

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Security researcher Ben Sadeghipour discovered a server vulnerability in Facebook's ad platform that allowed remote code execution. Meta fixed the issue within an hour of his report and awarded him a $100,000 bug bounty. The flaw stemmed from an unpatched Chrome browser vulnerability.