Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords

Published on March 19, 2024

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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