Misconfigurations may have exposed data on 100 million Android users on March 2, 2010 in Hannover, Germany. Researchers on Thursday reported that in analyzing Android apps on open databases they discovered serious cloud misconfigurations that led to the potential exposure of data belonging to more than 100 million users. In a blog post, CheckPoint Research explained how the misuse of a real-time database, notification managers, and storage exposed the personal data of users, leaving corporate resources vulnerable to bad threat actors. âBy not following best practices when configuring and integrating third-party cloud services into applications, millions of usersâ private data was exposed,â the researchers said. âIn some cases, this type of misuse only affects the users, however, the developers were also left vulnerable. The misconfiguration put usersâ personal data and developerâs internal resources, such as access to update mechanisms and storage at risk.â