Twitter awards $10,080 to Indian-origin hacker for discovering security flaw

Microblogging website Twitter awarded Avinash Singh, an Indian-origin White Hat hacker, $10,080 for discovering a security loophole in its Vine video-sharing service. The flaw enabled Singh to access the entire cache of Vine's online code. Avinash Singh reported the security loophole to Twitter in March and was

awarded with $10,080, through a bug bounty startup called HackerOne. According to a report by Hacker News website , the hacker discovered a Docker image for Vine while looking for vulnerabilities using censys.io. For those unaware, Docker is an open digital platform for developers and system administrators. From code to libraries, it includes everything required to build and run applications.