If you are a social networking fan, then I am pretty sure that fear of facing a data leak may haunt you day and night. Well, if you have not yet created an account on taringa.com.net then congratulations you saved Yourself this time.
If you are a social networking fan, then I am pretty sure that fear of facing a data leak may haunt you day and night. Well, if you have not yet created an account on taringa.com.net then congratulations you saved Yourself this time.Taringa is the 4th most popular social media network which consists of a 27 million registered user base. As Internet traffic is concerned, Taringa backs the second place after Facebook.One of the main features of Taringa is the posts. The users themselves create the content and receive feedback in the form of comments, points, recommendations, and favorites from the community (except new users, being experts or not).What exactly happened?Taringa has reached popularity at its peak but also faced a number of legal issues. According to the protocol of Taringa, users are only allowed to post links to own-created contents or other contents that don't infringe copyright laws. When there are links that infringe copyright laws, they should be removed by the administrators and moderators of the page. But many times such activity was observed and still not removed or withdrawn. There have been quite many such issues faced by Taringa.Recently, one week ago, LeakBase, a subscription-based data breach notification website, was able to obtain a stolen database containing essentially 100 percent of Taringa’s customer records –28,722,877 in total. The hashed passwords use an aging algorithm called MD5 – which has been considered outdated even before 2012 – that can easily be cracked, making Taringa users open to hackers.According to LeakBase team, they have already cracked 93.79 percent (nearly 27 Million) of hashed passwords successfully within a span of few days. The data breach reportedly occurred last month, and the company then alerted its users via blog post, sharing more information about the incident.“It is likely that the attackers have made the database containing nicks, email addresses, and encrypted passwords. No phone numbers and access credentials from other social networks have been compromised as well as addresses of Bitcoin wallets from the Taringa program! Creators." said the post [translated].To protect its users, Taringa is currently sending a password reset link via email as soon as they access their account with an old password.Save yourself from cyber losses and stay tuned to https://securereading.com/