In this day and age why the hell is any website storing passwords in plaintext form.

Hell, in any bloody day and age.

It's not like hashing passwords is new tech, Unix was "crypt"ing passwords before I was bloody born.

https://freecycle.helpscoutdocs.com/article/319-data-breach-august-2023 

 And yeah, if you're a #freecycle user perhaps pop along to the website and change your password. (You don't use the same password everywhere... do you... that'd be very foolish.)

https://freecycle.helpscoutdocs.com/article/319-data-breach-august-2023