Blippy Leaks Credit Card Number, Won’t Be The Last Time
Filed Under (Credit Cards Blog) by creditblogger on 25-04-2010
Have you ever wondered about whether you can trust a certain company that you give you your credit card information to? There is a reason why companies such as Amazon and eBay are trusted the most by consumers. Even those companies are not 100% secure when it comes to dealing with your credit card information. There are plenty of useful services offered by startups and small businesses that require you to give up your credit card information. But can you trust these companies with your financial information?
Blippy is one of those startups. It’s based on a very interesting concept. Essentially, you provide them with your financial information, and the service tells the world what you are buying. On the surface, it sounds like a very interesting service. After all, you can give others an idea what you are buying for real. What you don’t expect to see with such a service is your credit card numbers been leaked to Google. Unfortunately, that’s what seems to have happened. It’s not known how widespread the problem is, but the fact that some credit card numbers have made it to Google’s cache is alarming.
That’s the problem with giving away your credit card information to any company. Some companies are better than others when handling your private information but no service is foolproof. You can always keep on the top of your credit report or sign up for an ID protection service to reduce the risk of your identity and financial information being stolen without you knowing it. But the best way to approach this is by not giving up your information to companies you are not too sure about. In fact, you should try to minimize the number of companies that have access to your information.
Here is how Blippy people intend to fix the issue:
As a continuation of our efforts from yesterday, when four credit card numbers were discovered in Google’s cache, we’re taking the following measures: 1. We’re continuing to work with Google to have them remove all sensitive information from their cache. 2. We’re analyzing our backup databases from January and February to understand what additional information the Google cache may have.
Would that really make people who have had their information found on Google feel better? I am not sure. That’s why you should not share your information with any company unless you absolutely have to. “Social” may be the game in town but that does not mean you should risk having your sensitive information exposed to the world just because you want to be “social.”
