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by breakingcups 4078 days ago
That's the one thing that's not really a problem, at least not properly dealt with. Take the website that has awesomely not disclosed whether a user account already exists with that email address or not.

Now go to that websites 'Register'-page. Enter the same email address and continue. I bet you half a dogecoin you will get an error message if an account already exists with that email address.

Of course, this is sort of solveable by following the same tactic. Just saying "An email has been sent to bla@bla.bla with furhter instructions", which in case of an already existing account could say "Someone tried to register with this email address, but an account already existed."

Something to be aware of.