Created by the late great Nick Berry of Data Genetics (redesigned and used with permission). He wrote a great data story around this which is also worth a read. Published in our book, Knowledge is Beautiful. How predictable is yours?
Data Visualization of the Most Common PINNumbers. Based on an analysis of leaked PINnumbers by Nick Berry, Information is Beautiful made this visualization of the most common PINs.
Honestly, I'm more boned if someone figures out my phone PIN (and steals it) than if they find my debit cardPIN, which has relatively little of my cash available.
Seen here looking like a view into the Matrix, this is a chart detailing the most used 4 digit PINs. Obviously, I was more than a little disappointed to not.
This project involves gathering data from haveibeenpwned.com for all possible PIN codes. I created an ordered wordlist based on the popularity of these PIN codes and provided visualizations to identify patterns.
ABC News analyzed 29 million leaked four-digit PINs from Have I Been Pwned? (a database of exposed credentials from data breaches) and visualized the data using a grid where each square represents a unique PIN.
It appears that many people use a year of birth (or possibly an anniversary) as their PIN. This will certainly help them remember their code, but it greatly increases its predictability.
Check out this infographic and see how safe your favorite PIN may be. Chip and PINcard, phone passcode, hotel safe – how predictable is your chosen PINnumber?
The analysis mentions that the commonness of “2580” [which is a straight line on an ATM keypad but not on a computer keypad] implies that the kind of person who uses a four-digit number as a computer password does in fact generally reuse their ATM pinnumber for it.
