Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/misconfigured-firebase-instances-leaked-19-million-plaintext-passwords/

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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Fermiverse@feddit.de · 9 pts · 2y

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

RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 2y

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

RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 2y

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?