3K+ Emails Of GitHub Enterprise Users Outed In Email And Then Posted On Pastebin

Re:3K+ Emails Of GitHub Enterprise Users Outed In Email And ... by RyanZAG on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @03:50PM (#5403160)

Hard to work out what's actually going on here from that article, but it sounds like GitHub Enterprise sent out a bulk email with all 3000 recipients in the CC field of the email?

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Re:3K+ Emails Of GitHub Enterprise Users Outed In Email And ... by jaryd on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @03:56PM (#5403191)

This morning I received a set of emails from Github Enterprise that looked like the following:

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To: [massive list of GE user emails]

Subject: NotMyInc Inc., your GitHub Enterprise license expires in 31 days

Body: We're reaching out to remind you that your GitHub Enterprise license is coming up for renewal in 31 days:

NotMyInc Inc.

License 123456

Created: April 18, 2012

Expires: April 18, 2013

Whenever you're ready, you can place your renewal order here:

https://enterprise.github.com/purchase

If you have any questions about this renewal process, or if there's anything else we can help with, just reply to this email and we'll be glad to help.

Thank you for choosing GitHub Enterprise!

The GitHub Team

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Each email was addressed to a different customer whose license is (apparently) soon to be expired.

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Re:3K+ Emails Of GitHub Enterprise Users Outed In Email And ... by joelhaasnoot on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @04:01PM (#5403237)

Ah, the famous "send it to everyone in the loop". Made a smiliar mistake once myself, sent it 7 times per recipient in the list, getting bigger as it looped :(

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Re:3K+ Emails Of GitHub Enterprise Users Outed In Email And ... by steveklabnik on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @03:52PM (#5403172)

That's how I read it.

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