Google has fixed a bug in Checkout Software which exposes the customer phone number to merchants.
Google spokesman said - "We had a bug in our Google Checkout merchant center and API. This meant that merchants selling digital goods may have seen buyer phone numbers which are normally provided only when users buy physical goods."
"We fixed the problem in the merchant center and we're rolling out a fix to the API over the next few days," he said. "We apologize to those impacted by this issue and appreciate their patience as we work to resolve it."
The users from following countries were affected by the bug.
Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Australia, Japan, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, Portugal, Israel, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India, Taiwan, Poland and Czech Republic.