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Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Cabrio@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don't use a password there that you've used anywhere else.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

emailing out credentials like this after sign up is certainly not best practice,

Understatement of the year right here. Everyone in this thread is more interested in dunking on OP for the few wrong statements they make rather than focusing on the fact that a service is emailing their users their password (not an autogenerated "first time" one) in plaintext in an email.