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Sensitive mobile app data found unprotected in the cloud.

Experienced developers who use the cloud to create mobile apps typically try to harden their apps to protect them against different types of attack.

In a new report released on Tuesday, Check Point said it discovered thousands of mobile apps that left data exposed.

Looking at apps that use the cloud-hosted Firebase database, Check Point found 2,113 different ones in which the backend data was unprotected and accessible to hackers.

"The thousands of databases that expose sensitive data are the cloud databases that are used by mobile applications themselves. So, having a specific application, from VirusTotal, or Google Play Store, or any third-party store, any unskilled person can check if it uses Firebase cloud database and easily access all the data if the database was not properly secured."

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