The iOS app Photo Vault, designed to protect private content, has leaked user data in real time due to a misconfigured, passwordless Firebase database, according to Cybernews. Designed as a digital lockbox for personal photos, sensitive notes, passwords, and more, PhotoVault nevertheless allowed for a security lapse, revealed last February, that left the app’s Firebase database completely exposed. The leak exposed older and file names to user email addresses, plaintext passwords, and even supposedly “secure” notes. This leak is extremely dangerous, as hackers can set up scrapers to constantly suck up sensitive data from the Firebase instance, getting real-time access to fresh passwords and other private info as soon as it's uploaded.