Good or bad practice to send a user password in an email?

Posted by foobert on Saturday November 03, 2012 @08:00PM
from the self-post dept.

Toms.com just sent my original password in an email after signing up. This just seems a bit old-fashioned. Does this probably mean that their password security is sub-standard?

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Re:Good or bad practice to send a user password in an email? by kashif_hn on Monday November 05, 2012 @04:43AM (#4742850)

Certainly

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Re:Good or bad practice to send a user password in an email? by snihalani on Saturday November 03, 2012 @08:27PM (#4738404)

Yes.

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Re:Good or bad practice to send a user password in an email? by pmtarantino on Saturday November 03, 2012 @08:27PM (#4738403)

Yes

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