Taringa Data Breach

What happened

In September 2017, news broke that Taringa had suffered a data breach exposing 28 million records. Known as "The Latin American Reddit", Taringa's breach disclosure notice indicated the incident dated back to August that year. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Taringa password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Taringa — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.