Apple has received a teenager award for the detection of a flaw in its devices

Apple awarded a prize to a teenager who discovered a gap in the FaceTime video connection on the company's largest communications technology phones.

The company did not reveal the size of the award, but it would largely contribute to the study costs of the teen Grant Thompson, 14, reported the BBC Saturday.

The teenager discovered a security vulnerability in TimeTime allowing him to spy on group calls with the help of this feature.

This comes at a time when an electronics researcher has refused to inform Apple of the security vulnerability of its peripherals because of its refusal to provide him with a financial reward.

The gap was discovered last month. Some Apple users have noticed that after connecting to other people using FaceTime, they can listen to their calls even if they initially refused to receive their calls, which means that once they try to contact could all be listened to.

Apple took these observations very cautiously and banned group calls on FaceTime for some time during the investigation.

The warnings were posted on social networking sites, not to mention the fact that one particular person had discovered them, but Apple later revealed that Grant and his mother had warned earlier about this loophole.

Grant found the hole when he used FaceTime to make group calls with his friends to discuss new methods in the Electronic Quinzaine game.

Grant and his mother then sent several letters to Apple to warn them of the creation of a loophole. The company did not respond, but it's thanks to Grant for finding the hole.

The German researcher on the Internet, Linus Haines, preferred not to reveal a security breach in Apple Mac OS allowing the user to enter a password.

Linus refused to disclose details after Apple refused to give him a financial reward for information.