Nobody gets rid of a hack, and less the web pages that do not adopt the adequate protection methods and adapted to the security risks that we can find today. Pordede was attacked a few months ago where hackers they had access to the majority of passwords of the users of this platform. Now it is the turn of Taringa, a social network of Argentine origin that is among the most used in the entire Spanish-speaking world. The attack happened a month ago, but so far the social network has not informed users. The only thing that he has done in this period of time was to advise users to change their password.
The attack that Taringa has suffered has exposed the users and passwords of the total number of users who used the platform, just over 28 million. The origin of this hack is found again in the encryption used by the platform, MD5, an encryption that has been in disuse since 2012, and that, as we have seen in similar attacks on other platforms such as Pordede, a little over two months ago.
LeakBase, who have been in charge of filtering this information, affirm that in just a few days they were able to decrypt 94% of the passwords that had been leaked in MD5 format, a deprecated format as I mentioned above. If we take a look at the 50 most used passwords, we can see how people still do not pay attention when it comes to protecting their accounts, since in the first position we find the passwords: 123456789, taringa, 1234567890, password, 000000, qwerty ...
If you regularly use this social network, the first thing you have to do, if you have not already done so, is change the password to one that is somewhat more complex, so that while they change the security protocol, no one can access your user and publish in your name. By the way, if you are one of those who use these types of keys, you can start using a password manager to start make it more difficult for all those people, hackers or not, who want to access your account, whatever the type.