Taringa is a site also known as “The Latin American Reddit.” The social network from Latin America appears to have been hacked and according to THN the login details of nearly all of its 28 million users were leaked.
Taringa is a popular social network targeted at Latin American users, who create and share thousands of daily publications on issues of general interest.
The leaked data is available at LeakBase, a violation notification service.
The service has a copy of the hacked base data containing details of 28.722.877 accounts, with usernames, email addresses and of course the passwords of Taringa users.
Bad news come here somewhere, as hashed passwords use a very old algorithm called MD5 – which has been considered obsolete before 2012. So it is very easy to break, adding to the dictionaries of hackers millions new passwords that facilitate them in brute-force attacks.
Do you want to know how weak the MD5 algorithm is? the LeakBase team has already broken 93,79 percent (almost 27 million) of passwords in just a few days.
Here are a few details with screenshots as they were published by THN:
As you can see, the LeakBase team managed to break 26.939.351 from 28.722.877 passwords encrypted using the MD5 algorithm, of which more than 15 million were unique codes (!).
The overwhelming majority of broken passwords contained alpha and did not contain special characters or symbols.
The worst passwords were: 123456789, 123456, 1234567890, 000000, 12345, and 12345678.
The most popular length of passwords was six characters. Here are the eight characters, nine and ten characters.
