diff --git a/app/controllers/session_controller.rb b/app/controllers/session_controller.rb
index 2a291716a..6f016931b 100644
--- a/app/controllers/session_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/session_controller.rb
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class SessionController < ApplicationController
     end
 
     json = { result: "ok" }
-    if SiteSetting.forgot_password_verbose
+    unless SiteSetting.forgot_password_strict
       json[:user_found] = user.present?
     end
 
diff --git a/config/locales/server.en.yml b/config/locales/server.en.yml
index 2cfe9ac4e..823d86484 100644
--- a/config/locales/server.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/server.en.yml
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ en:
     allow_index_in_robots_txt: "Specify in robots.txt that this site is allowed to be indexed by web search engines."
     email_domains_blacklist: "A list of email domains that users are not allowed to register accounts with. Example: mailinator.com trashmail.net"
     email_domains_whitelist: "A list of email domains that users MUST register accounts with. WARNING: Users with email domains other than those listed will not be allowed!"
-    forgot_password_verbose: "Inform users of an account's existance when they use the forgot password dialog."
+    forgot_password_strict: "Don't inform users of an account's existance when they use the forgot password dialog."
     version_checks: "Ping the Discourse Hub for version updates and show new version messages on the /admin dashboard"
     new_version_emails: "Send an email to the contact_email address when a new version of Discourse is available."
 
diff --git a/config/site_settings.yml b/config/site_settings.yml
index e12a48081..072b25994 100644
--- a/config/site_settings.yml
+++ b/config/site_settings.yml
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ login:
   email_domains_whitelist:
     default: ''
     type: list
-  forgot_password_verbose: true
+  forgot_password_strict: false
 
 users:
   min_username_length: