Agility Loop

Blippy,  a company that enables users to share their credit card purchases, today provided details on a breach of credit card information.  Turns out that four credit card numbers were searchable via Google.  The beginning of their response:

Today someone discovered a Google search that displays the credit card numbers of 4 Blippy users.

We take security seriously and want to assure Blippy users that this was an isolated incident from many months ago in our beta test, and doesn’t affect current users.

While it looks super-scary and certainly sucks for those few people who were affected, and is embarrassing to us, it’s a lot less bad than it looks.

Although I feel a “less bad” for these four folks, WHAT THE !@!$@!$ DID YOU EXPECT?  It is one thing to use your credit card online for purchases, but it is a whole new level of voyeurism that drives you to share your credit card number for the purposes of telling the world what you are buying.

“Hello world…I just bought an fully capable inflatable sheep for $19.99.  I promise it is just as a gag…honest.”