Interesting, but why would an attacker push a notification like this to so many people?
Or did not many people get it? Could I be targeted, along with the others in this thread?
If the attacker really intended to send the notification to everyone (or even 10%), wouldn't that very likely get the attention of Airbnb, and then they'd know about the issue and be able to mitigate it?
Edit: assuming everyone got it, this seemed much more likely to be a mistake, to me. For example, someone working at Airbnb was testing something and accidentally did it in prod instead of dev. Otherwise, why not camouflage this as something more innocent, like an ad for Airbnb, saying something generic like "Check out our listings near you"?
axby|3 years ago
Or did not many people get it? Could I be targeted, along with the others in this thread?
If the attacker really intended to send the notification to everyone (or even 10%), wouldn't that very likely get the attention of Airbnb, and then they'd know about the issue and be able to mitigate it?
Edit: assuming everyone got it, this seemed much more likely to be a mistake, to me. For example, someone working at Airbnb was testing something and accidentally did it in prod instead of dev. Otherwise, why not camouflage this as something more innocent, like an ad for Airbnb, saying something generic like "Check out our listings near you"?
SoeMyzlack|3 years ago