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.

  • LdyMeowEnglish
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    8 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….