Anyone else get the email today from HBOMax@mail.hbomax.com (mail headers match), with subject "Integration Test Email #1", and message "This template is used by integration tests only"<p>Oops.
This doesn't mean that real user data was taken from production planted into intergration tests. Quite plausibly, test code is mixed in with production code, and got somehow accidentally executed in production. Maybe someone opened a live REPL into some running service and stepped on some test function, and that function used its real production context to send an e-mail to a real user. Kind of thing.
There should be a database of oopsies where we can share our oopsies and upvote the most epic ones.<p>... already exhausted about thinking what can pass as an oopsie, what is the appropriate human suffering threshold we can laugh about and keep it light?<p>...y'all did this to me.
Seems like someone accidentally published their test code into production. My instinct also tells me that HBO is using Spring Boot and that a missing or misplaced annotation is also somehow involved in this accident.
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Got one too. Not on my personal email, but on my work one (that has never been used for subscribing to HBO, unsurprisingly).<p>My work email address is in github and some other public email lists
I have a unique email for direcTV (now closed). It is DirecTV that shared our email with HBO. Likely to market to us. I will disable that email as I no longer have DirecTV
Message received. Definitely a mistake. Are they pulling data across apps? I’m a subscriber but why would @headcrumbs rx one? Unless he’s a previous customer
So this is cause HBO messed up a test and somehow sent it to there ENTIRE EMAIL DATABASE??? Even email addresses associated with partners and closed accounts...The Direct TV association makes me think the Email went out to ANY AND ALL ATT media subscribers past and present instead of just testing the ability to send emails to account holders, someone messed up and seems to have sent real emails. This will be on the news...