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Probably the worst security I've ever seen is a website I used to visit that had their "Forgot your password?" system change the password of the account to the user's username and didn't even send an email confirmation before doing it.

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    technically you can then enter every user
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    Website I go for training class enter forgot password, enter email which is your user ID and sends a 3 char password to your email, and don't make you change it during next login...
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    4 years ago, a friend of mine had his Hotmail stolen. Unusually, he had deleted his account recovery email, however, his stolen Hotmail account still had that old deleted email address as recovery. What I did ? I registered a new email account with exactly the same address as his recovery email, then proceeded to follow steps to recover the stolen account and it worked!
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