The Teen Who Hacked Wall Street — and Made $300,000 Before Breakfast
He broke the market with a smartphone and an app glitch.
In 2020, 20-year-old Alexander Kearns discovered a bug in the Robinhood trading app.
It let users borrow unlimited money to trade stocks — even if they didn’t have any.
Alex experimented, flipped options, and within hours saw his account show a negative balance of -$730,000.
He panicked, thinking he owed it.
But later investigations proved it was a display error.
Wall Street patched the bug instantly.
But for a few hours, a broke student had access to the financial power of a hedge fund — using only his phone and a burrito.
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