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

submitted 5 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 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Aw damn, was 12345 in it? That's my code on my luggage...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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?