Taringa data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the August 2017 breach of Taringa. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Taringa data breach exposed 27,971,100 accounts from taringa.net in August 2017. The data taken includes passwords, usernames and email addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 19 Apr 2018, 9 months later. It is the 67th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Taringa’s breach included 3 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Usernames | Half of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Taringa among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Taringa password.If the account still exists, sign in at Taringa (taringa.net) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention Taringa.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 9 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Edmodo, May 2017, 43 million accounts
- LiveJournal, January 2017, 26 million accounts
- Zomato, May 2017, 16 million accounts
- Dueling Network, March 2017, 6.5 million accounts
- Bell (2017 breach), May 2017, 2.2 million accounts
- Coinmama, August 2017, 478,824 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- taringa.net, Taringa’s website