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Ask HN: Websites emailing passwords in plain text – anything to do?

by maximente on 2/3/21, 4:43 PM with 4 comments

per title, i've had two websites this week send forgotten passwords in plain text over email which would imply it's stored as plain text.

is there anything positive one can do here?

by LinuxBender on 2/3/21, 4:54 PM
Ask them to fix their site. Give them a few months. Get them on the PlainTextOffenders list if they won't fix their site. [1]
[1] - https://github.com/plaintextoffenders/plaintextoffenders
by rgbrgb on 2/3/21, 4:46 PM
I'd avoid those sites and ensure passwords are unique (using something like 1Password). If you want, you could also send the maintainers a few links on best practice.
by softwaredoug on 2/3/21, 7:45 PM
Send to plain text offenders:
https://plaintextoffenders.com/about/
by blackcats on 2/3/21, 9:05 PM
Reset password. Hope they don’t mail the password again