Android apps with more than 4.2 BILLION downloads leaked user data through Google’s Firebase

Some 24,000 Android applications have been leaking sensitive data – including mobile phone numbers and passwords – through improperly configured storage on Google’s Firebase development platform, a new study has found. The critical lack of security was uncovered by a research team at Comparitech.com, an expert group focusing on information security and privacy. The Firebase platform is the most popular storage solution for Android apps, used by almost a third of all the applications available on the Google Play Store. The researchers sampled a whopping 515,735 of the apps – around 18 percent of all the programs available on the Store –

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