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.

  • Fermiverse@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

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

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    8 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

  • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    I like it when there’s a clear answer to the question “why hire you? The nephew of my gardener can program that for a tenth of your price!”

    I don’t know, why would you?