900+ Websites Exposing 100M+ Accounts Including Plaintext Passwords

New research has revealed that more than 900 websites had a serious misconfiguration, which exposed a massive 125 million user records, including plaintext passwords and sensitive billing information. These results come after researchers scanned the entire internet for exposed PII through misconfigured Firebase instances. Moreover, these were easy misconfigurations of security rules that had zero […]

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