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by the1 4823 days ago
http://www.scribd.com/password/check thank you for this. now I can run a list of emails against this to see who has scribd account
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I just put in a bunch of fake email addresses and they all returned with "Good news - your password has not been compromised." I think the only confirmation that youd get of an existing account is if the password was compromised.
They can modify it to simply say whether your account was compromised, regardless of whether you have an account (ie, if no account -> not compromised).
...Which they ought to do. Offering the ability to enumerate user accounts is unlikely to be the immediate goal of this utility, but it's an effect nonetheless.
30 minutes later and it's fixed. Entering an invalid email also results in a "this email was not compromised" message.
That's what they're doing. "aijaspijasohisaho@asoihdshohdusudhs.com" gets a message saying that that account wasn't compromised.