{"id":6248,"date":"2013-04-26T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2013-04-26T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:22:21","slug":"tech-tip-how-criminals-guess-your-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2013\/04\/26\/tech-tip-how-criminals-guess-your-pin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip, How Criminals Guess Your PIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: x-small\">By Gina Smith, ANewDomain.net<\/span> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.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\/\" >Tech Page One<\/a> 01\/04\/2013<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/anewdomain.net\/\" >aNewDomain.net<\/a> \u2013 Forget the security issues surrounding the ecosystem surrounding the nascent epayment economy for a minute. There\u2019s a bigger problem \u2013 and it\u2019s as obvious as your Personal Identification Number, or PIN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">Odds are you\u2019ve 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\u2019t care or don\u2019t bother to set up a four-digit PIN that\u2019s difficult to guess after about 20 tries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">Try this on for size. According to a study of 3.4 million PINs by Data Genetics, nearly 27 percent of PINs could be guessed at correctly after just 20 tries. That isn\u2019t just because popular pins like 1234 and 8888 reign \u2013 the most popular 1234 PIN accounted for 10 percent of the exposed PINs it studied. It\u2019s also because, with four digits, there are only 10,000 possible combinations. Couple the two and you\u2019ve got a situation that stands to expose an awful amount of people to a whole lot of felony theft \u2014 all over a PIN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">What to do? Check out the infographic below and make sure your PIN isn\u2019t among the most popular. Never write yours down. Change it frequently. And don\u2019t be lazy about it. PIN theft is booming, for sure. But it takes two \u2013 you and the PIN thief working in concert \u2013 to tango.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">More\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.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\/%23.UXVOwUqAY11\">http:\/\/www.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\/#.UXVOwUqAY11<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gina Smith, ANewDomain.net &#8211; Tech Page One 01\/04\/2013 aNewDomain.net \u2013 Forget the security issues surrounding the ecosystem surrounding the nascent epayment economy for a minute. There\u2019s a bigger problem \u2013 and it\u2019s as obvious as your Personal Identification Number,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2013\/04\/26\/tech-tip-how-criminals-guess-your-pin\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech Tip, How Criminals Guess Your PIN<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 13:09:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}