The Teen Who Hacked Wall Street — and Made $300,000 Before Breakfast

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.