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Title: PIN numbers with less significance are safer
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Published: Aug 1, 2013
Author: Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News | The Sidesho
Post Date: 2013-08-01 02:06:09 by Tatarewicz
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PIN numbers with less significance are safer than popular numbers, according to a study (Reuters)PIN numbers with less significance are safer than popular numbers, according to a study (Reuters)

How safe are your debit and credit cards?

Identity theft and fraud affect millions of Americans every year. And depending on how much thought you put into your personalized PIN, you could be at a greater risk than you realized.

So what constitutes a safe PIN number? A new study from DataGenetics lists the top 10 most-used PINs. And because they are the most commonly used PIN numbers, they are by default the least safe PINs.

According to Forbes, the United States and Mexico are home to the greatest number of credit and debit card thefts around the globe. Forty-two percent of Americans say they have suffered from some form of card fraud, a study from Aite Group and ACI Worldwide shows.

The Department of Justice says that about 10 percent of all Americans suffer from credit card fraud each year and another 7 percent have their debit cards hacked or stolen. More than $5.5 billion in theft is attributed to credit card fraud each year.

The DataGenetics study says that credit and debit card

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The DataGenetics study says that credit and debit card thieves are able to successfully guess more than 25 percent of stolen card PINs within 20 attempts.

And no surprise: the worst PINs are those that are overly simple or sequenced, i.e. “1234.”

WTOP notes that the best PIN numbers are those “with no special significance.” And in the case of the study, DataGenetics said the least used PIN is “8068.”

The 10 most-used PINs:

1234 1111 0000 1212 7777 1004 2000 4444 2222 6969

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