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.
9 points
When plain text passwords are allowed to even entering a database then there was something totally wrong in the first place.
5 points
Aw damn, was 12345 in it? That’s my code on my luggage…
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
1 point
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?