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How Common Is Your PIN? (datagenetics.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the more-human-than-human-is-our-motto dept.

phantomfive writes: We've seen password frequency lists, here is an analysis of PIN frequency with a nice heatmap towards the bottom. There is a line for numbers starting with 19*, which is the year of birth, a cluster around MM/DD for people's birthdays, and a hard diagonal line for the same digit repeated four times.

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  1. Not even PIN data by OzPeter · · Score: 3, Informative

    From TFA

    Obviously, I don’t have access to a credit card PIN number database. Instead I’m going to use a proxy. I’m going to use data condensed from released/exposed/discovered password tables and security breaches.

    By combining the exposed password databases I’ve encountered, and filtering the results to just those rows that are exactly four digits long [0-9] the output is a database of all the four digit character combinations that people have used as their account passwords.

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  2. Super old blog by MrLogic17 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I thought this blog posting on PIN numbers looked familiar - then I looked at the publish date. September 3rd, 2012.

    Um, guys?

  3. Re:No respect for Tommy Tutone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The fouth most popular seven digit password is 8675309"