Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb

Posted by kaustubhvp on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:47PM
from the self-post dept.

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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Re:Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb by BMorearty on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:23PM (#14973224)

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

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Re:Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb by atmosx on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:39PM (#14973932)

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

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Re:Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb by kaustubhvp on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:32PM (#14973295)

cool. messaged you on twitter.

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Re:Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb by BMorearty on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:39PM (#14974413)

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.

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Re:Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb by bsvalley on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:21PM (#14973207)

Don't they have a few summer interns?

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