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The Blippy Leak: How Credit Card Numbers Got In Google

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April 24, 2010
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The Blippy Leak: How Credit Card Numbers Got In Google A social shopping site called Blippy inadvertently got its users' credit card numbers indexed in Google. Here's how it happened.
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Lost iPhone? Get Free Beer, Anyway Lufthansa is offering a free beer--and Business Class flight to Germany--to Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who lost the iPhone prototype in a bar.
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