Taringa is a site also known as "The Latin American Reddit." The Latin American social network appears to have been compromised, and according to THN, the login credentials of almost all of its 28 million users have been leaked.
Taringa is a popular social network aimed at Latin American users, who create and share thousands of posts daily on issues of general interest.
The data leaked are on LeakBase, a breach notification service.
The service has a copy of the hacked database containing details of 28.722.877 accounts, with usernames, email addresses and of course their codeaccess 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 crack, adding to hackers' dictionaries millions of new passwords that make them easier to attack brute-force.
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 some facts with screenshots as 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.
