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Leaked 4 digit PINs graphed

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[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 92 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My pin is still 1077. The price of a cheese pizza and a large soda at Pannucci’s.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Meh. He only had $23.50 in his account.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh no! My ATM card! My secret PIN number: 1077.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

lol at this

all 4-digit passwords leaked:

0000 0001 0002 0003 0004...

[–] atticus88th@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Every news outlet: "Major breach of your pin codes! Click this link."

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

27% of all PIN numbers

PIN Numbers

Number Numbers

Okay, this didn't make me twitch at all. Nope.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago

They probably have RAS syndrome

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you think these are personal PIN numbers?

they might even be personal PIN numbers for identification!

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Star Trek fans.

NCC-1701

Species 8472 is under represented.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This site needs 3rd-party JS to load a fucking picture.

[–] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Crap! Someone else is using my PIN. I should change it.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Change your luggage combo too.

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the combination...

1,2,3,4,5

That's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage.

[–] ErrorCode@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Came here for this comment. Did not disappoint!

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The row of 20XXs makes me laugh. Looks real bright around 2077, you cyberpunk nuts.

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

That's the 19xx's the 20xx row is only bright up until about 2010. So it's people born in the 70s using their birthday.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Little blip at 1701 (NCC-1701). I wonder what the other individual blips represent.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

THX-1138 (George Lucas' first movie).

Am surprised it is popular 54 years on.

neither 0451 nor 4510 are even registering, i'm disappointed.

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago

Heh, 8008 is slightly highlighted

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Lol at the dot for 1701, looks like there are loads of star trek fans

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Using the same digit 4 times is no longer allowed most places, but this chart shows them being pretty popular.

This chart has no sourcing or date associated. Is it old?

Edit: Yes, it is. Here is the excellent source article: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/

So it's from 2012, and used historic breach data from years before then.

In other words, this chart is wholly inacurate now.

Tagging those discussing similar: @Rivalarrival@lemmy.today @codfishjoe@lemmy.world

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use 0451, for those who know!

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can’t think of an explanation for the periodic grid like clusters. Anyone?

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Number pairs where the 1st and 3rd digit match or where the 2nd and 4th digit match.

Eg: 1315 or 4676

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Love the blip at 7942 XD

People really just picked the model # of their bank's VOIP phone

[–] JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The best internet find today: informationisbeautiful.net !!

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except no dates. This chart is soooooo old.

[–] JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And yet, most likely user behaviour hasn’t changed!

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 week ago

It will have had to. Many of the most common from pre 2012 are not allowed at banks. And no 4 consecutive digits are.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

27% of all PIN numbers

I feel personally attacked.

[–] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are they talking about? I always use xxxx :xD

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

How can you write hunter2 as a four digit pin?!

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Umm... There is one glaring flaw here:

3.4 million data points visualized from several data breaches.

We are only looking at the pin codes of people whose data has been compromised.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

They were leaked, not guessed.

[–] codfishjoe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Generally these breaches happen on the service side rather than the user side. These likely include users even with secure and insecure alike.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

almost nobody is using my 4 digit drawing of a dick and balls

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

It s a blank page.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Mine is really close to one of the ones on least common. 16 year old me dun good I guess.

i have the same one on my luggage

[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

1312 is the best PIN code tbh.