Mobile app developers’ misconfiguration of third party services leave personal data of over 100 million exposed – Check Point Research

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Check Point Research (CPR) recently discovered that in the last few months, many application developers put their data and users’ data at risk. By not following best practices when configuring and integrating 3rd party cloud services into applications, millions of users’ private data was exposed. In some cases, this type of misuse only affects the users, however, the developers were also left vulnerable. The misconfiguration put users’ personal data and developer’s internal resources, such as access to update mechanisms and storage at risk.

In this research, CPR outlines how the misuse of real-time database, notification managers, and storage exposed over 100 million users’ personal data (email, passwords, names, etc.) and left corporate resources vulnerable to malicious actors.

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Source: Mobile app developers’ misconfiguration of third party services leave personal data of over 100 million exposed – Check Point Research

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