A Google spokesperson tells me any webmaster can request to have info pulled from Google's cache using its . (Any webmaster -- that doesn't mean you can write in and ask to have those from spring break 2004 annihilated.) Typically, it takes some time for the request to be processed and the information to be removed. Given the nature of this case and the publicity surrounding it, though, Google prioritized the request and took "special measures" to get the credit card numbers deleted post haste.

Conduct now, and you'll still see the pages listed -- but the snippets that had the numbers are long gone.

Blippy, for its part, says it's taking steps to strengthen its site security in light of this lapse. As for the users affected, at least one has come forward so far. The man, a 38-year-old firefighter named Bradd Dantuma, somewhat fittingly learned about the breach through social media. A friend of his, he tells , sent him a message on Google Buzz:

"Psst... You might want to cancel your Blippy account. And probably change your credit card number."