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Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb

7 points by kaustubhvp 8 years ago · 5 comments · 1 min read

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I reset my password for an old account on Airbnb, server error-ed in HTTP 405 error. After that I could login to Airbnb. But on my email, started getting 100+ emails and currently the number is 500+. Airbnb is seriously getting hacked.

BMorearty 8 years ago

I'm an eng at Airbnb. What is the subject line of these emails? Can you DM me your userid at BMorearty on Twitter?

  • atmosx 8 years ago

    It's great to see someone from Airbnb jump in on this so fast. Congrats.

  • kaustubhvpOP 8 years ago

    cool. messaged you on twitter.

    • BMorearty 8 years ago

      Following up on this: there have been hundreds of incidents of attempted fraudulent access to this user's account. All were successfully blocked by our security systems, which worked as designed.

      But we had a bug that sent him a bunch of emails today (one per prior blocked attempt) when he changed his password. That bug is now fixed.

bsvalley 8 years ago

Don't they have a few summer interns?

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