I don’t know if you’ve heard, but social shopping site Blippy made a little slippy. Blippy, a four-month-old startup funded partially by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, lets you create a “social ...

As we reported this morning, Blippy, the social network for weirdos people who want to broadcast to their credit card activity, accidentally published some of its users' credit card numbers. Whoops!

Heard of Blippy? It’s a “fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone is buying.” It’s also a service that’s putting scads of credit card numbers online. Whoops! Also: very bad. UPDATED: The ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. August Capital partner David Hornik just announced on Blippy.com that he ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. An anonymous tipster pointed us to Google search results, which, when we ...

Blippy, a social-network for people who want to publish their purchasing activity, was busted on Friday for publishing some of its users' credit card numbers. By Friday afternoon, Blippy said it fixed ...

One day after The New York Times explored the rise in social Web sites that expose information about users' purchases and activities, declaring that people are becoming more relaxed about privacy, a ...

Google didn't put the credit card numbers of four Blippy users on the Internet, but its search technology failed to detect that Blippy had fixed a problem in February. Tom Krazit writes about the ever ...

, another social media outlet, began sending him messages about the Blippy.com issue. Blippy.com is a start-up site that allows people to input their credit card information and let friends track ...

It didn't take much sleuthing by VentureBeat writer Paul Boutin to make the satirical PleaseRobMe.com an uncomfortable reality: just one search query and he had the credit card numbers of a handful of ...

Blippy, which connects ‘friends’ on its social network so that they can exchange information about what they’re buying, allows people to automatically post information about what is being spent on ...