Security Incident Taringa.net compromised 28M accounts are at risk due to a data breach!

Compromised Data
usernames, email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords.
Compromised Total Users
27971100
Data Breach Date
2017

Data Breach Details Discussion

Taringa.net compromised 28M accounts are at risk due to a data breach!
http://taringa.net
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.

Most of the rows if not all of them have the following syntax of USERNAME:EMAIL:HASH hash type being MD5.

File is 714MB in size compressed and 1.80GB uncompressed.

The total record count of this database is 27971100 lines.

Sample of content:
Gorda02:se.sebastian@gmail.com:f4ddfa461ad350927bcd4a90089d363f
flakito021:gambito_forever@hotmail.com:cfcd7931ab079ae3848355f2a7e0615f
mlavadores:m.lavadores@hotmail.com:4c4c42dfababd70b9dc1efb0238fca3a
00GoD00:espia_007_jorge@hotmail.com:7842f60aa599a1cf48189cf50b9cf4b9
dragon3424:leescriboaleze@hotmail.com:c06e1f24e0f738b9fcdf94b2a859abf2
sonatartica:pmega_3@hotmail.com:af774e535ec36ad7e99f92f354b25c01
MaTeoO:jorge_av91@hotmail.com:e10adc3949ba59abbe56e057f20f883e
holly:lizvillavel@gmail.com:007ce68078f71cad785373cf68687de2
CROSJAVA:cristian_osv91@hotmail.com:eb700c0ed40e4b784c2225b1e4930e2f
yolita72:yoli72martinez@hotmail.com:f677f11dc7bee2f6267311321402dbb0

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