Thousands of
Android and iOS
apps are
leaking sensitive data, says report
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Millions of passwords, GPS locations, and financial records are sitting unprotected in plain sight — and yours could be one of them.
Researchers at Appthority, a mobile security firm, scanned both
Android and iOS mobile
apps that used Firebase databases to store their users’ data. For the uninitiated, Firebase is a popular cloud-based backend platform for mobile and web applications. The company was
acquired by Google back in 2014, so it’s found a real user base among some of the top
Android developers.*
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