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Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb

7 points by kaustubhvp ↗ HN
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.

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bsvalley
Don't they have a few summer interns?
BMorearty
I'm an eng at Airbnb. What is the subject line of these emails? Can you DM me your userid at BMorearty on Twitter?
kaustubhvp
cool. messaged you on twitter.
BMorearty
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.

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