Five percent of the databases are vulnerable to threat actors: It's a gold mine of exploit opportunity in thousands of mobile apps, researchers say.

Hundreds of sites misconfigured Firebase security rules, exposing a total of 125 million pieces of sensitive information This article, originally posted in Japanese on 19:30 May 04, 2024, may ...

Misconfigurations in Google Firebase databases allow unauthorized parties to find and access personal data of users.

Avast found 19,300 apps on Google Play Store had misconfiguration in their Firebase database, putting personal information at risk of theft ...

Of these, 155,066 were using Firebase. I spoke to Diachenko, who confirmed that from the sample that was using Firebase, some 11,730 of those apps were exposing that Firebase database publicly.