(Tablet) Liel Leibovitz - Yuval Shprintz, a high school senior, is 17, lives in Tzurit, a small moshav in northern Israel, and is interested in information security. He was toying with WhatsApp, the instant messaging platform owned by Facebook, when he stumbled on a major security breach. Shprintz alerted Facebook of the problem using its bug bounty program, and in December he received a check for $1,250. "We're grateful that this has been brought to our attention," Facebook said. "We've quickly fixed the problem."
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