[torstenvl]

Unless they're storing hashes of every combination of characters in your password... seems pretty indicative of them storing the password in plain text.

[lucb1e]

Which is not that big a deal if you have a password manager with unique, randomly generated passwords. Exactly the scenario they're preventing...

And just in case it's not a joke, storing hashes of every subset is laughably easy to crack so that's plaintext-equivalent.