The second most popular PIN in is 1111 (6% of passwords), followed by 0000 (2%). Nearly 11% of the 3.4 million four-digit passwords he analyzed were 1234. What he found, he says, was a "staggering lack of imagination" when it comes to selecting passwords. He speculates that, if users select a four-digit password for an online account or other web site, it's not a stretch to use the same number for their four-digit bank PIN codes. Berry analyzed those to find which are the least and most predictable. There are 10,000 possible combinations that the digits 0-9 can be arranged into to form a four-digit code. If you lost your ATM card on the street, how easy would it be for someone to correctly guess your PIN and proceed to clean out your savings account? Quite easy, according to data scientist Nick Berry, founder of Data Genetics, a Seattle technology consultancy.īerry analyzed passwords from previously released and exposed tables and security breaches, filtering the results to just those that were exactly four digits long.
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