Here Are The Top 20 Most Common Pin Codes in The World
There are a possible 10,000 4-number pin combinations that can be made from 0-9.
We use them for everything. Cards, phones, alarms, gates, suitcases. And yet, despite the vast variety of combinations, a striking 10.7% of us use the same one.
President of Data Genetics, Nick Berry, conducted a study on 3.4 million leaked credit card pins to determine the most commonly and least commonly used passwords.
He writes:
“By combining the exposed password databases I’ve encountered, and filtering the results to just those rows that are exactly four digits long [0-9], the output is a database of all the four digit character combinations that people have used as their account passwords”.
He found the most common password in the world is astonishingly; 1234.
The top ten are as follows:
- 1234
- 1111
- 0000
- 1212
- 7777
- 1004
- 2000
- 4444
- 2222
- 6969
- 9999
- 3333
- 5555
- 6666
- 1122
- 1313
- 8888
- 4321
- 2001
- 1010
The least common passwords are as follows.
- 8557
- 9047
- 8438
- 0439
- 9539
- 8196
- 7063
- 6093
- 6827
- 7394
- 0859
- 8957
- 9480
- 6793
- 8398
- 0738
- 7637
- 6835
- 9629
- 8068
