Blippy User's Debit Card Numbers Still Appearing In Google

[The Straight Story]

Blippy User's Debit Card Numbers Still Appearing In Google

Blippy, the social network for people who want to publicize their purchases, got in big trouble yesterday for publishing some of its users credit card numbers. But by mid-afternoon, Blippy had announced the problem was taken care of and that the situation was "a lot less bad than it looks."

Well, it still looks really bad.

With the help of an SAI reader, we found Blippy was still making at least one debit card number available to scamsters Google searching for the terms "site:blippy.com +outstanding." We've pasted a screenshot below.

A Blippy spokesperson agreed with us yesterday that these kinds of privacy mistakes are a "nightmare scenario" for Blippy.

Rationale people would assume that two days of publishing user's credit card and debit card numbers would be death blow for a social network designed for people who want to publish the purchasing history.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/04/24/businessinsider-warning-blippy-users-debit-card-numbers-still-appearing-in-google-2010-4.DTL#ixzz0m2x1OGLA

[Webster Green]

1. Social network for people who want to publicize their purchases?

:wtf:

[JVS]

2. The ultimate in conspicuous consumption.