28 Million Taringa Accounts Compromised
LeakBase, a breach notification service, has obtained a copy of the hacked database containing details on 28,722,877 accounts, which includes usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords for Taringa users.
The hashed passwords use an ageing algorithm called MD5 – which has been considered outdated even before 2012 – that can easily be cracked, making Taringa users open to hackers. MD5 is so weak that LeakBase has already cracked over 27 million of the accounts.
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