Taringa, is a site also known as “The Latin American Reddit.” Το κοινωνικό network από την Λατινική Αμερική φαίνεται να έχει παραβιαστεί και σύμφωνα με το THN διέρρευσαν τα στοιχεία connectionof almost all of its 28 million users.
Taringa is a popular one social network που απευθύνεται σε Λατινοαμερικάνους χρήστες, οι οποίοι δημιουργούν και μοιράζονται χιλιάδες δημοσιεύσεις καθημερινά σε issues of general interest.
The data that were leaked exist on LeakBase, a service notification of violations.
The service has a copy of the hacked database containing details of 28.722.877 accounts, with usernames, email addresses and of course passwords accessof Taringa users.
Bad news come here somewhere, as hashed passwords use a very old algorithm called MD5 – which has been considered obsolete before 2012. Έτσι είναι πολύ εύκολο να σπάσει, προσθέτοντας στα λεξικά των hackers millions new passwords that facilitate them in attacks brute-force.
You want to know how much weak algorithm is MD5? 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.
