Blippy’s Response To Credit Card Data Breach: “It’s A Lot Less Bad Than It Looks”

Earlier today, 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. After all, Blippy's service asks users to entrust it with their credit card information (and in some cases, their credentials for online services) — it is of paramount importance that Blippy keep that data secure. In an official response, the company says it isn't as bad as it looks and doesn't affect current users, explaining that it affected four early beta users, specifically those whose credit cards include their credit card numbers as part of a transaction's "Raw Data".