Similar to the login page, if you have user profile pages, be careful about allowing username enumeration. For example, if someone visits /users/JohnDoe and then /users/JaneDoe, and one returns a 404 Not Found error, while the other returns an 401 Access Denied error, the attacker can infer that one account actually exists and the other does not.
User profiles
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