Fact Check: Bihar Boy Didn't 'Hack' Google

A viral claim alleged that Rituraj Chaudhary, a student from Begusarai, Bihar, "hacked" Google for 51 seconds and was rewarded with a Rs 3.66 crore job offerAs per a viral claim making the rounds on social media, Rituraj Chaudhary, a student living in Bihar's Begusarai purportedly hacked Google for 51 seconds, after which the tech giant sent him a Rs 3.66 crore job offer. The post, amplified by Bigg Boss contestant Deepak Thakur, also claimed Google arranged an emergency passport and a private jet for him. 

The claims are false. Chaudhary himself clarified that he had merely reported a bug through Google's Bug Hunters program and received only an acknowledgement email Chaudhary himself clarified that he received an acknowledgement email from Google for reporting a bug. 

Speaking to fact-checkers, he was explicit: "I haven't got any package or job offer from Google or hacked anything. It was just a bug which I have reported""I haven't got any package or job offer from Google or hacked anything. It was just a bug which I have reported, that's it. And currently I'm just in second year of B.Tech. So those news are fake". 

The institutional claim was also wrong — he studies at IIIT Manipur, not IIT, which doesn't existRituraj is a second-year undergraduate pursuing a B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering at IIIT Manipur. He was simply listed among Google's researchers for the disclosure.