Reply to post: Re: Hold on...passwords remain the same?

Google dumps ISP email support. Virgin Media takes ball, stomps home

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Re: Hold on...passwords remain the same?

This has been posted upon many times, yes, Virgin Media store your password in such a way that it can be supplied in normal form (I don't know if they store it "encrypted", but I have written proof they can decrypt and send it in a letter, so it's definitely not hashed).

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