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.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•9 months ago

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

  • RBGEnglish
    4•9 months ago

    Aw damn, was 12345 in it? That’s my code on my luggage…

  • @[email protected]English
    1•9 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?