http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2383200/One-PINs-correctly-guessed-time-Research-reveals-20-commonly-used-numbers.html
By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON
Mail Online
2 August 2013
Despite a rise in credit card fraud, the most commonly-used PIN is still
1234, with 1111 and 0000 coming in second and third.
Research has revealed that one in ten codes is so obvious it would take
criminals just one attempt to guess it correctly, while more than a
quarter of the codes are used so often they can be guessed in fewer than
20 attempts.
The study from DataGenetics analysed 3.4 million four-digit codes and
found that many people use birth years as PINs, making it even easier for
hackers to guess a code simply by finding out a person's age from online
accounts.
Research from security experts McAfee has found that 17 per cent of people
in Europe have been victims of credit card fraud, at a cost of £1,076 per
person. Last year the total cost of credit card fraud in the UK from
criminals hacking and cloning cards was £42.1 million and the total amount
of fraud committed through all credit card-related crimes was £388
million.
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