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Oops HBO, using real user data in your software integration tests?

54 points by pardner ↗ HN
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.

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darkblade
i got it. I thought I won something.
HumanError929
Yup just got one and went straight to Google to find out wtf was going on. What does it mean?
lahwran
it 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!
dreamfall88
Yep...what the heck. It got my main email for junk stuff and my personal/professional one I don't use publicly
BodegaCat
Just got that too. That engineer is going to feel bad.
PreMalone
What does it mean tho? An intern fuck-up?
SirMaster
You think they give production access like this to an intern?
vgk7105
YES, LMAO. Someone will not have a great Friday morning team meeting at HBO.
metamet
I 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
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.
toothterror
Yep, got it on 2 different emails — WTH?! What is going on?
topazius
Yes. What the hell? I'd really like to know why.
gault8121
wow, this will go down as an all-time tech fail.
hbointern
nah, people won't remember it in a year.
HeAD-CRuMBs
Yes... I don't have hbo so why do they have my email?