Airbnb says it has fixed a baffling bug in its website that briefly caused some of its users to be shown messages belonging to others when viewing their account inboxes.
The rent-out-your-home app maker said the problem occurred on Thursday between 0930 and 1230 PT, and affected punters who were logged into its desktop or mobile site as opposed to its smartphone app. During that time, users said that when trying to view their inboxes, they were instead randomly shown the contents of other users' inboxes. These included private messages and booking confirmations with things like stay details and addresses.
While it seemed to be Airbnb hosts publicly reporting encountering the blunder, the biz would not confirm exactly who had been hit, only saying it was "a small subset of users" who had their inboxes shown to strangers. We're leaning toward believing this was a classic web ..
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