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 ...

The following post first appeared Saturday April 24th. Blippy, the social network for people who want to publicize their purchases, got in big trouble yesterday for publishing some of its users credit ...

A series of gaffes at Blippy, Google, and a Midwest bank exposed the credit card numbers of four individuals within Google search results for more than two months. Blippy acknowledged that it should ...

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 ...

A controversial website that shares details of users' credit card and online purchases with their friends on the Internet appears to have done a bit too much sharing. A recent glitch exposed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!

Four users of the social networking site Blippy.com had an unwelcome surprise April 23 when it was discovered that a Google search turned up their credit card information. Blippy.com provides a way ...

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 ...

[Update: Blippy cofounder Philip Kaplan emailed a response. CNET News is reporting that the cards in question were issued by Fifth Third, not Citibank.] [Update #2: As of Saturday morning in ...