It didn't occur to me. What about you? Would you make your PIN any of these?
1234
1111
0000
1212
7777
1004
2000
4444
2222
6969
9999
3333
5555
6666
1122
1313
8888
4321
2001
1010
These are the top 20 PINs. What is the choices of PINs? Ten thousand combinations with the number 0 to 9.
And how did they find out these are the most common ones? A study of 3.4 million leaked credit card pins. That's lots of leaks and in 2023 there were 3,205 data compromises impacting 353 million people. While it seems stupid to have a password of 1234, data breach frequency seems to make all those careful choices of PINS - all 9,980 of them seem pointless.
This area of PIN and passwords is the subject of many jokes. This joke demonstrates why this is. There are many variations - I liked the one with Roses but the swear words were a bit overwhelming.
SENIOR TRYING TO SET PASSWORD:
WINDOWS: Please enter your new password. USER: cabbage
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters. USER: boiled cabbage
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character. USER: 1 boiled cabbage
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces. USER: 50bloodyboiledcabbages
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character. USER: 50BLOODYboiledcabbages
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively. USER: 50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourA$$IfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessNow!
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation. USER: ReallyPissedOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourA$$IfYouDontGiveMeAccessNow
WINDOWS: Sorry, that password is already in use. 🙂
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