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

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Post by sweetface » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 1:26 AM UTC

I just got it wtf does it mean? Layman's terms plz and should I be worried

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

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Post by shiroppi » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 1:27 AM UTC

Yep I got one too, hence why I'm here lol. I was wondering if they got their live code mixed up.

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

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Post by mmmmeee » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 1:28 AM UTC

Got one as well. Googled and this is the first post I saw. At least it isn't just me.

Crazy af though.

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

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Post by directvhater » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 1:30 AM UTC

yosemitesam4eva wrote: post #47

Razhan wrote: post #43

Got one too. Not on my personal email, but on my work one (that has never been used for subscribing to HBO, unsurprisingly). My work email address is in github and some other public email lists

How do they get the email address if a user never entered it into their system?? This is mind blowing

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...

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

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Post by bmdben » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 1:30 AM UTC

I asked if they needed help testing their free year of HBO Max.