Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases, according to a report released this week by mobile security firm ...

Build an Android app that monitors the user's location and then records this information to a Firebase database, so you can view the device's exact coordinates in realtime.

Avast said that it found over 19,300 Android apps exposing user data to the public due to a misconfiguration of the Firebase database. Firebase is a tool Android developers can use to store user data.

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

Some 2,200 unsecured Firebase databases have caused more than 3,000 iOS and Android apps to leak user data, exposing over 100 million records including plaintext passwords, health information, GPS ...