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Account Harvesting

nounid 1414·updated May 12, 2026
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Account Harvesting is the process of collecting all the legitimate account names on a system.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
Account Harvestings
possessive
Account Harvesting's
pluralpossessive
Account Harvestings'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
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Account Harvesting is the process of collecting all the legitimate account names on a system.

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