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Another hole that has been exploited in the past (speaking generally here, not about this specific startup) is a password reset function that confirms the email address it is sending the password/recovery link to. If the accounts are sequentially numbered, it's a trivial exercise to fetch a reset link for each member, and scrape the email address returned.



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