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Misconfigurations in Google Firebase lead to over 19.8 million leaked secrets
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On March 19th, news broke that researchers uncovered more than 19.8 million plaintext credentials publicly exposed through instances of Google's Firebase. Firebase is a popular app development platform used by over 3 million developers worldwide and nearly 4,000 enterprises.
In mid March, three security researchers, mrbruh, xyzeva and logykk, discovered the secrets while checking more than 5 million websites for security flaws. This was a follow-up to previous research, in which they were able to gain "superadmin" …
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