The search in question -- "site:blippy.com +"'from card'" -- instructed Google to dig up the section of the text that contained the credit card data. Blippy co-founder says the mistake was the result of some sloppy coding present in Blippy's pages back when the site first went online.

"It was all removed and fixed quickly, months ago," Kaplan promises. "While it looks super-scary ... and is embarrassing to us, it's a lot less bad than it looks."

Kaplan says only four of the service's users were affected. Even though Blippy corrected the coding problem some time ago, those users' credit card data was still accessible due to the cached nature of the snippets -- those short blurbs you see on search result pages -- used by Google.

Thankfully, Blippy was zippy, and all is now skippy. The company contacted Google soon after learning about the leak, and within about two hours, the G-Team was able to get the credit card info permanently off of its pages.