Taking credit where it isn't due

Who would have guessed - share your financial data online and next thing you know your credit card is searchable on Google - Venturebeat:

Yesterday was a big day for social-oversharing site Blippy, which lets members automatically post their purchases to the Internet. The company announced $11.2 million in funding and was profiled in The New York Times.

Overnight, at least one Internet power user figured out a way to search for Blippy members’ credit card numbers on Google. A fairly obvious search for “from card” this morning returned 127 results that included full credit card numbers.

VentureBeat reporters deduced that all are Citibank-issued MasterCard numbers

Blippy, of course, say things aren't that bad......

“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.

In the words of the immortal Mandy Rice Davies, "He would say that, wouldn't he". Maybe this is on the level, but its only a matter of time before it is the reality.

A fool and his money are soon parted, but he is parted even sooner from the data about his money.