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
    9·
    8 months ago

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