1970-01-01 5 days ago

"Breached"

1st sentence: "exposed database"

We need a more nuanced headline here. They did nothing responsible. 404 should title this story with something that will blame them first and the 'hackers' 2nd.

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ch_fr 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, the term "breached" was a very poor choice, because it sounds like "this was breached recently" instead of telling "the database could be seen by anyone ever since the app's conception, and it only came to light today" which has much worse implications.

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aaronmdjones 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This app's data store was "breached" in the same way that one breaches a castle by walking across the lowered drawbridge, through the open gate, past the empty guard stations.

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zahlman 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My general observation thus far has been that submissions from 404media are rarely anything that I'd consider quality content for HN.

	▲	prophesi 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I wouldn't go that far. What they uncover with their FOIA requests that the general public would otherwise never know about tends to be quality content. And, like the Wired, their FOIA-based articles aren't paywalled.

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gaws 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

No one "breached" the site. The pictures sat on a public-facing Firebase bucket, ripe for the taking.