Indian Hacks vine's source code Avinash singh, an Indian gentlehackerman recently popped out thesource code of twitter's video blogging site, which was stored as a Docker image which is hosted by Amazon Web Services and should be kept private, Avinash while hunting and popping around ; found an image with address https://docker.vineapp.com . which caught his attention.
After accessing the link, he discovered that the entire source code of Vine along with the option to create a mock-up site of Vine.
He also added that the running Docker Images also allowed him to create a replica of Vine. However, being a descend boy, rather than hacking the site, he preferred to inform about this problem to the owner site Twitter.
After discovering this, he told about this issues to Twitter on 31st August, and the owner of Vine and the developers of Twitter quickly solve the issues within 5 minutes. In return, Avinash was paid a whopping worth of 6.8 lakhs for his gentleness and effort.
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