Blippy’s Response to Credit Card Data Breach: “It’s a Lot Less Bad Than It Looks”
Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch.com reports VentureBeat detailed a major Blippy privacy breach that exposed user credit card information to search engines. The breach appears to have occurred on a small scale — Blippy believes that only four users had their credit cards compromised — but the fact that it happened at all is unsettling. Blippy is a social-oversharing site, which lets members automatically post their purchases to the Internet for others to see.
