In a Saturday blog post, the controversial start-up Blippy has revealed that another credit card, the fifth one thus far, of a Blippy user could be found in Google search. The company, which earlier said that the credit card numbers of four of the site’s users could be found through Google’s search results, has asked Google to re-index its entire site.
Blippy, which essentially facilitates users’ creation of a profile and their sharing of different online purchases with a mass group of friends, inadvertently exposed the credit card numbers of the users to the public Internet in February; however, the issue came to light this Friday.
Blippy co-founder Ashvin Kumar said that, for the five users, their full credit card numbers for over 100 different purchases were speciously exposed as a result of an unexpected combination of raw data and the Google cache.
Meanwhile, a Google spokesman said that, on Friday, “Blippy notified us about four credit card numbers they had inadvertently published to the Web, so we took special measures to quickly remove the snippets and cached results containing those numbers.”
The spokesperson further added that on Saturday Google was informed about “additional URLs cached from the blippy. com site with credit card information, so our engineers worked on a Saturday morning to urgently remove the snippets and cached pages for all of blippy. com, which has about 20,000 URLs.”
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