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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no, they probably dont.
they just send it to your email upon registration, which is kinda a bad idea, but they are probably storing passwords hashed afterwards.
But that still means they had your plaintext password at some point.
Edit: which, as some replies suggest, may not actually be much of an issue.
I'm still skeptical about them returning it, however.
Of course. You receive the password in plain on account creation, do the process you need, and then store it hashed.
That's fine and normal
When you create an account you type your password in. This gets sent to the server, and then it is hashed and stored
So there is a period of time where they have your unhashed password
This is true of every website you have ever made a password on
I've never even heard of the game studio I'm not defending them, I was replying to the person who said the company should never have your unhashed password, and explaining that they have to at some point in the process
So why would an agent at Larian have man-in-the-middle access between the password being sent to the server, and the auto-hash?