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.

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    I'm a bad programmer, but even I wouldn't trust my firebase with storing credentials. Those firebase rules are not robust enough. The hackiest thing ever