Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don't use a password there that you've used anywhere else.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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While sending your password in plaintext over email is very much a bad idea and a very bad practice, it doesn't mean they store your password in their database as plaintext.
Would you accept "in a way that can be reversed"?
It's possible that this email is a result of forum user creation, so during that submission the plaintext password was available to send to the user. Then it would be hashed and stored.
I don't know why you'd give them any benefit of the doubt. They should have already killed that with this terrible security practice.
But yeah, sure, maybe this one giant, extremely visible lapse in security is the only one they have.