It's an extremely dumb idea to pay them to hide your password, because first you have to trust that they will actually do it and second, if they know it, than a whole lot of other hackers also do, because they sell this kind of databases to each other on a daily basis. If the password is stored in plaintext, than it either means that the original password was so weak that it got cracked or that some site was storing it in plaintext in the first place - these two possibilities already mean huge security flaws and paying $10 won't solve them.
You know this, and I know this. However, many of the regulars don't know what to do or have any idea about how things like this work. I checked the email address of relatives and surprised them with mentioning what sites they registered on. Their response was how did I know they were registered there, and what the first or last letters of their passwords were, etc. At that point they started to panic, and people who panic are desperate and very likely to pay to get themselves "removed" from these databases. People here often blame regulars for not understanding Bitcoin, but they fail to understand that regulars don't even understand the basics of the internet. I would say that spreading awareness and knowledge is the best thing that you can do within your own environment. Not everyone knows how to deal with these things.
