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submitted 2 years ago by Cabrio@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

So it's in plaintext in their email system

[-] Thadrax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Generated emails usually don't get saved, as soon as it is delivered it will be gone.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

these emails don't usually get copied to local outbox folder (as any oher auto generated emails)

password may end up in cache somewhere tho....
and this is why it's a bad idea and rarely done nowadays

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