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Oops HBO, using real user data in your software integration tests?
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"
Oops.
- jgollhardt 5y agoI got it too!
- grassgoth 5y agoI just got one too
- darkblade 5y agoi got it. I thought I won something.
- poisssonrouge 5y agoYup
- thor007 5y agoYes I did
- NadCo7 5y agoYup, I got it
- bugsnyc 5y agoDitto
- diegodavidpe 5y agoMe, i dont know what it means
- HumanError929 5y agoYup just got one and went straight to Google to find out wtf was going on. What does it mean?
- TheoreticalTurt 5y agoSomeone on the testing team messed up.
- lahwran 5y agoit means a test that was supposed to check if hbo max's software can send emails correctly was run with their real email authentication somehow. I'm so curious how they managed to send it to so many people!
- HumanError929 5y agoAhh ok thanks
- TheoreticalTurt 5y agoYeah weird
- dreamfall88 5y agoYep...what the heck. It got my main email for junk stuff and my personal/professional one I don't use publicly
- BodegaCat 5y agoJust got it too.
- PreMalone 5y agoWhat does it mean?
- idkwhatshapp 5y agoNew westworld season would be my guess
- spaceJeff 5y agofinally
- BodegaCat 5y agoJust got that too. That engineer is going to feel bad.
- PreMalone 5y agoWhat does it mean tho? An intern fuck-up?
- idkwhatshapp 5y agoNew westworld season
- vgk7105 5y agoYES, LMAO. Someone will not have a great Friday morning team meeting at HBO.
- metamet 5y agoI wonder if we'll find out how many of their subscribers got em. I got two. Was wondering first if it was suspicious or an oops.
- kazinator 5y agoThis 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.
- toothterror 5y agoYep, got it on 2 different emails — WTH?! What is going on?
- topazius 5y agoYes. What the hell? I'd really like to know why.
- gault8121 5y agowow, this will go down as an all-time tech fail.
- hbointern 5y agonah, people won't remember it in a year.
- richisohi89 5y agogot 3 of them
- HeAD-CRuMBs 5y agoYes... I don't have hbo so why do they have my email?
- HeAD-CRuMBs 5y agoThis kinda thing gets under my skin.
- rk1987 5y agoYes
- rk1987 5y agoGot one as well
- jlommiller 5y agoDo I have to worry about this?
- bennathanson 5y agome too
- bennathanson 5y agoSame here
- rk1987 5y ago"Integration Test Email #1" - and this will be the last for this test suite
- nohbomax 5y agoGot one too, do not have hbomax…
- kjsingh 5y ago+1
- yosemitesam4eva 5y agoMessage 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
- shaunamauk 5y agoHBO UX needs some work.
- tbobarino 5y agoYep, I even have a deactivated account too, and got the email for both active and inactive accounts!
- anurag1212 5y ago+1
- Razhan 5y agoGot one too. Not on my personal email, but on my work one (that has never been used for subscribing to HBO, unsurprisingly). My work email address is in github and some other public email lists
- yosemitesam4eva 5y agoHow do they get the email address if a user never entered it into their system?? This is mind blowing
- directvhater 5y agoAs I stated above, 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. The email they sent this to was only used for my DirecTV account and for nothing else. This is why I am confident that DirecTV (AT&T) shared this...
- unknown113 5y agoI don't have a direct TV account nor have I ever used any kind of a TV cable service. I also don't use AT&T so I'm not sure. Because I also got the email.
- squeegmeister 5y agoAh man, poor dev. Hope they keep their job. You could argue this was a net positive, letting the world know hbo go uses integration tests
- maininformer 5y agoThere should be a database of oopsies where we can share our oopsies and upvote the most epic ones. ... 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? ...y'all did this to me.
- yosemitesam4eva 5y agoFor realz… what’s up with this type of system sending messages to users who never shared the rx’ing address with HBO?
- directvhater 5y agoI used a unique email for a now closed DirecTV account. This was sent to that email. It is DirecTV sharing our email with HBO
- zodboggler 5y agoBut I got it, and I’ve never had an HBO account or a DirecTV account.
- directvhater 5y agoI 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
- wbsun 5y agoGot one, too
- Bawlz 5y agoDitto McGritto
- Bawlz 5y agoDitto Mcgritto
- sweetface 5y agoI just got it. Wtf is it? Layman's terms plz
- floridamanfred 5y agoSo my best explanation is I am a YouTube TV user and I saw that there giving a 5 day trial for HBO Max. I think the integration is between the two companies so we can test it out for free. I think that email was them flipping the switch and forgetting to remove the test email. This is my hypothesis as a seasoned Server Engineer.
- electricviolet 5y agoAn integration test is a type of software test that makes sure different parts of a system work properly together. So HBO has some integration tests that make sure their system can send email properly. The way it does this is by sending some test emails to a test email list. Except somehow, someone made a mistake today and the test email got sent to the real email list of all the subscribers.
- northerntao 5y agoAddress not found Your message wasn't delivered to HBOMax@mail.hbomax.com because the domain mail.hbomax.com couldn't be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again.
- sweetface 5y agoI just got it wtf does it mean? Layman's terms plz and should I be worried
- shiroppi 5y agoYep I got one too, hence why I'm here lol. I was wondering if they got their live code mixed up.
- mmmmeee 5y agoGot one as well. Googled and this is the first post I saw. At least it isn't just me. Crazy af though.
- bmdben 5y agoI asked if they needed help testing their free year of HBO Max.
- alexbeau10 5y agoYep got one as well…
- foobarbazetc 5y agoEh, just a misfired email.
- gimmedatruth 5y agoI don’t know why but I felt inclined to google what this email means.
- KimchiMeow 5y agoI googled it, too. Lol. Hence why I’m here. Never had this happen before!
- makise 5y agoScared asf lol don't even use HBO.
- hbointern 5y agofuck fuck fuck can anyone tell me how to undo an email with C++? Shiiiit, I'm so fired.
- unknown113 5y agoI got the email on 3 emails. I need to deactivate the one didn't even know I still had it on my phone until the email popped up.
- jaxjaxjax 5y agoAT&T strikes again
- YTheLastMan 5y agoI got three… to the same email address.
- bigdealio 5y agoYep. Got one too.
- Anon12343 5y agoSo 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...
- barfingoutloud 5y agoI got the Segregation Test 1968 version, is it an Android error?
- griotman 5y agoyeah, got it. flat out creepy. flipping HBO. smh
- griotman 5y agoYeah, I got it as well. Flippin creepy. Find this kind of stuff disturbing…
- dzt1030 5y agoI did. Wtf?
- littleSchemer7 5y agoSeems 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.
- 19buttercup 5y agoYes, I did. Also, I did not sign up for HBO MAX; but did subscribe to the old HBO once upon a time. So they are using user data from the past.
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