A study by scientists have found that the world’s most popular PIN number or password is the number – 1234. Infact a staggering 11% of people have this as their number.
This number was closely followed by 1111, 0000 and 7777 as other most popular numbers.
The study found that people generally use important dates or information asa guide when picking their PIN number. The most popular of these is a pet’s birthday or the date of our wedding anniversary.
Research suggests that many people simply opt for the most memorable code they can think of.
Using the digits zero to nine there are a total of around 10,000 possible ways to form a four-digit PIN code.
But using data from security breaches and previously released or exposed password tables, the bloggers found that 11% of the 3.4 million passwords they looked at were 1234 – a proportion they described as “staggering” and betraying a “lack of imagination.”
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38 Responses
that’s so weird and really funny because that’s the same pin as my brother!!!! lucky I didn’t write my real name or u would all be trying to steal his card!!! lololololololol
wow, people really dont use there im,agination now a days :3
cool:)
Woo free money and hacking for me
Haha It’s easy 2 remeber 🙂
Wow this would make it quite easy for hackers and criminals to do BIG robberies! Whoa!!!!!
That is very innapropiate for this website. You should know better. Hacking is a very bad thing to do because it can hurt peoples feelings and also, people work hard for that money!
WOW, BECAUSE I KNOW THE MOST COMMON PASSWORD, I WILL NOW START HACKING
LOL
All of those are really easy to remember if I had a pin code it would be my birthday date or the year I was born.
What if someone steals your money when u r big…. how would you feel? I’d feel terrible(of course!)
Um…that probably isn’t the best thing to be putting on a public website considering the amount of bad people in this world!! I don’t want mine to be hacked into :O :O :O :O
Hehehe that is so failed mine Is just some random numbers that don’t even make any sence 😛
You are right millie
lame i am not hacking
Your are right
lol
kool
Mine is not even near that its 1232
That is such an inaprpriote article, look at what people are writing! Shearing stuff that we should not no and names that are inappropriate and last but not least the comments are really poor!
I agree with you Millie!
You make a great point! This site is not for you to write stuff that people should not know! You guys should know better!
You guys that have all replied are right, well done!
you have to get there credit card first
Duh
People need to keep some things to them selfs
I couldn’t care less. But I don’t have a credit card. Santa lied to me. 🙁
first in first serve
i did not type that
That was me this is not good this is bad for hackers
that just didnt give someones pin number away or any thing!?!?
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That is not cool
Weird but wonderful
These have already been released, so they don’t exist anymore.
Ha ha thats funny
AWESOME so werid and unbeliveable
thanks for telling me because im a hacker