Credit Card Purchase Site Blippy Weathers Embarrassing Card-Data Breach.

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Credit Card Purchase Site Blippy Weathers Embarrassing Card-Data BreachCredit Card Purchase Site Blippy Weathers Embarrassing Card-Data Breach.

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Byline: Kate Fitzgerald

Fast-growing social-networking site Blippy hit a rough patch this week when it revealed an internal glitch that resulted in exposing certain users’ credit card data on Google Inc.’s search engine for some three months.

Palo Alto-based Blippy, which has gained some 125,000 followers since its launch in December, touts itself as “a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone is buying.” The site enables users to register a credit card with the site, which tracks users’ purchases at such merchants as Apple Inc.’s iTunes, Amazon.com and Netflix.

Blippy promises to extract users’ sensitive card data, but the company says it slipped …

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Terry Cutler

I’m Terry Cutler, the creator of Internet Safety University, an educational system helping to defend corporations and individuals against growing cyber threats. I’m a federal government-cleared cybersecurity expert (a Certified Ethical Hacker), and the founder of Cyology Labs, a first-line security defence firm headquartered in Montréal, Canada. In 2020, I wrote a bestselling book about the secrets of internet safety from the viewpoint of an ethical hacker. I’m a frequent contributor to National & Global media coverage about cyber-crime, spying, security failures, internet scams, and social network dangers families and individuals face daily.