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| Author: | The_Hatta [ Fri Apr 23, 2010 11:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Blippy Exposes Credit Card Numbers Through Simple Google Sea |
"In an unfortunate data breach, social media site Blippy has , searchable via a simple Google query. The results show the amount spent on a transaction, the location, and the full card number. As of this submission, the issue still hasn't been resolved." The company's co-founder, Philip Kaplan, told the NY Times, "... when people link their credit cards to Blippy, merchants pass along their raw transaction data – including some credit card numbers – and the site scrubs that information to present just the merchant and the dollar amount spent. But several months ago, when Blippy was being publicly tested, that raw transaction data was present in the site's HTML code, . Mr. Kaplan said that early on, Blippy started disguising the raw transaction data behind the scenes, but it did not know about the breach until today." |
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