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

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

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Post by floridamanfred »

sweetface wrote: post #54

I just got it. Wtf is it? Layman's terms plz

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.

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

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Post by unknown113 »

directvhater wrote: post #59
yosemitesam4eva wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

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.
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