The Taringa hack is actually one of the biggest leaks of the year with 27 million weakly hashed passwords breached, but it’s not often covered in the Western media with it being a Latin American
Category: MD5
Worse still, service recommended “short, but difficult to guess passwords.”
MD5 and its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin put world on collision course.
Programming errors make 15.26 million accounts orders of magnitude faster to crack.