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submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/databreaches@lemmy.zip

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 points 1 year ago

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 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year 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

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year 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?

this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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