Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud computing, and app development.

Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud computing, and app development.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    9 months ago

    The companies that stored plaintext passwords need to be named and shamed. In 2024, there’s absolutely no reason for passwords to not be hashed.

    • LdyMeowEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      It’s worse than that….reading the article it’s like they went out of their way to do it poorly. Apparently forbade has built in tools to handle authentication….