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A technique used on systems that leak information on whether a given user exists or not, to get a list of registered users.

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Password reset giving clues of possible valid email addresses

The reason for this finding is that a user gets different responses, depending on the existence of the email address. This can be as simple as telling them that the address is not known, or something …
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