Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb

7 points by kaustubhvp 8 years ago | 5 comments

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.

kaustubhvp 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?