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Hubski is using an outdated and insecure model of password recovery: if you lose your password, they send you an email with a new one in plain text. This is extremely insecure, especially because they don't force you to create a new password when you log in using the one they sent in a plain text email.
Best practice would be to send an email to the registered account with a link to a page where you must immediately change your password. That way, there is never a plain text password in play.
Also, it would be good to do email verification.