Crazy. I had Hetzner, Vultr, Linode, Rackspace (back in the day when they did that), never had to prove my identity.
Still have a 2009 Acer Aspire One running. Slow but fine for web and email and doc editing. Also small and battery lasts quite a while.
The point is that they shouldn't know the password to compare it to another user's password. So at best it is not salted and at worst it's not encrypted.
Hey I think I have this exact shot too