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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by robin_reala on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:10AM (#12450878)
And submitting the site to http://plaintextoffenders.com
Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by user5994461 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:12AM (#12451416)
Omg. That sounds like a public list of "Top poorly secured business sites to breach. --Reward guaranteed"
Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by robin_reala on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:55AM (#12451591)
They have two classes of site that they don’t distinguish to be fair. One is the awful “You’ve forgotten your password. It’s: xxxx” where they’re just storing the password in plaintext in the database.

The other is still not great but it’s less bad: “Thankyou for registering. Your registered password is: xxxx”. In this case they’ve just passed the user details to an emailer before (potentially) encrypting and storing them.

Neither is good, but the first is awful.