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REVEALED: Hundreds of google firebase websites might have leaked data online - The Real Truth

An abstract image of a cloud raining data.

Another day, another misconfigured database leaking sensitive user information to the internet - but this time around, it's a big one - more than 900 websites using Google’s cloud database service, Firebase.

As reported by The Register, researchers with aliases mrbruh, xyzeva, and logykk, recently found that the AI hiring service “chattr” poorly implemented Firebase, and as a result, they were able to create a new admin account and access sensitive data stored there.

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