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 yearand 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 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

SOURCE: http://myoddnews..com/2013/08/the-10-most-easily-stolen-atm-card-pins.html

Das obviously hackable, only a dumb person will use dat as a pincode

mine is just ****

Lol @ 6969. Chai! Corrupt-minded people

adexsimply: ^^

@post: anytime I have to use a four-digit pin, it's always my year of birth , its a bad habit, but I can't seem to recall combinations of digits

Try and recall combinations brother, it's good for ur money.

olempe:

Try and recall combinations brother, it's good for ur money.

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