Infographic: How Criminals Guess Your PIN

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Infographic: How Criminals Guess Your PIN

By Gina Smith
Tech Page One
January 4, 2013

aNewDomain.net�� Forget the security issues surrounding
the ecosystem surrounding the nascent epayment economy
for a minute. There�s a bigger problem � and it�s as
obvious as your Personal Identification Number, or PIN.

Odds are you�ve used a four-digit PIN a lot. And that
means a field day for criminals. Plain and simple, as the
infographic below demonstrates, most folks don�t care or
don�t bother to set up a four-digit PIN that�s difficult
to guess after about 20 tries.

Try this on for size. According to a study of 3.4 million
PINs by�DataGenetics.org, nearly 27 percent of PINs could
be guessed at correctly after just 20 tries. That isn�t
just because popular pins like 1234 and 8888 reign � the
most popular 1234 PIN accounted for 10 percent of the
exposed PINs it studied. It�s also because, with four
digits, there are only 10,000 possible combinations.
Couple the two and you�ve got a situation that stands to
expose an awful amount of people to a whole lot of felony
theft � all over a PIN.

Continues at:

http://techpageone.com/technology/with-holiday-shopping-well-upon-us-criminals-celebrate-too-are-they-using-your-pin-to-do-it-heres-a-great-infographic-with-facts-and-analysis-around-the-question-of-how-safe-your-pin-is-reall/#.USpL6TA3tuB

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