Blippy Users Credit Cards Details Exposed On Google
After Blippy exposed the credit card numbers of four individuals two months ago, Google's search crawlers did not find that it had scrubbed its site.
The credit card numbers were left exposed for more than two months within Google search results after a series of gaffes at Blippy, Google, and a Midwest bank.
Blippy is a social networking site that enables it users to create social networks around sharing information on goods and services, they choose to buy. VentureBeat made the revelation that that credit card details of four Blippy users are their in Google's search index, and VentureBeat published its discovery in a story, forcing Blippy's three co-founders to repair the damage and ask Google to remove to delete the numbers from its search index.
Meanwhile, Blippy has acknowledged its mistake, saying it should not have exposed the details of the credit card numbers of its users on Google. On their part, the search engine giant confirmed that its search bots have faulted in failing to update its cache of Blippy's pages for more than two months.
Sources added that the Blippy had made a few changes to its Web site code in early February and the problem had begun at that time itself because the social networking site exposed the raw data at that time. That data includes details such as time, date, amount, and location of the purchase.
