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What gets me is the "password is too similar to old password".
How do they know? Are they storing them in plain text? I would imagine the hash would change drastically even if I change a single character, no?
I mean they could technically check common password modifications and test all of those hashes against your old hash to see, if they're storing plaintext and you should delete your account immediately.
My guess is the latter is correct