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Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

When plain text passwords are allowed to even entering a database then there was something totally wrong in the first place.