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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An 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.
So 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.
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.
There 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?
Seems 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.
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As 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...
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
Message 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
So 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...
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!
I 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.