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Thousands of Android Apps Leak Data thanks to firebase misconfigurations - 3rm4c - 05-13-2020
A roughly estimated 24,000+ apps leak data due to firebase being misconfigured excerpt from the original story "Data exposed through these misconfigurations includes email addresses (Comparitech identified more than 7,000,000), usernames (over 4,400,000), passwords (more than 1,000,000), phone numbers (in excess of 5,300,000), full name (more than 18,300,000), chat messages (6,800,000+), GPS data (6,200,000+), IP addresses (156,000+), and street addresses (560,000+), among others."
Security through obscurity wins again.
securityweek(dot)com/thousands-android-apps-leak-data-due-firebase-misconfigurations
RE: Thousands of Android Apps Leak Data thanks to firebase misconfigurations - chloroquine - 05-13-2020
theyve been running this method dry on hackerone.com for months. surprised it took so long to hit the big boy news
RE: Thousands of Android Apps Leak Data thanks to firebase misconfigurations - mothered - 05-13-2020
Apps leak data to some degree, so this comes to no surprise.
That aside, the nature of the data due to this misconfiguration Is quite concerning.