Property News · September 28, 2012

The most common pin numbers: is your bank account vulnerable?


Data blogger and technology consultant Nick Berry has been crunching pins to see which are easiest to guessWe all carry debit cards, credit cards and mobile phones, and most of these items require a four digit pin to unlock them. Shockingly, it appears that one in every 10 people uses the same pin – 1234.Theoretically, there are 10,000 possible four-digit combinations the numbers 0 to 9 can be arranged into, and if everyone selected a number entirely at random that would offer a reasonable level of protection. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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