Introduction A women’s safety app, Tea, designed to protect users from dangerous individuals, suffered a catastrophic data breach exposing 72,000 women’s government IDs, driver’s licenses, and personal data. The breach occurred due to an unsecured Firebase storage bucket with zero authentication, highlighting the dangers of poor security practices in app development. Learning Objectives Understand the risks of misconfigured cloud storage (Firebase, S3, etc.).

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