The credit and debit-card security breach at Target (TGT) has grown into an even bigger headache for customers with the retailer's admission that encrypted personal identification numbers were stolen.

This pin might make you an easy target. Many people have difficulty selecting and remembering a passcode, especially when it involves four-digit pins. But if you plan to default to something as easy ...

With thousands of people falling prey to scams and cyber attacks every year, you may think that people would be a little more careful about their passwords and PIN numbers. However, an analysis of ...

ATM cards and their PINs are becoming the easiest targets in the growing number of cybercrimes. Hackers first try PINs that are easy to guess. Therefore, choosing a 4-digit ATM PIN should be done ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, May 20, 2025: This story, originally published May 19, ...

Will banks let customers use emojis instead of numeric PINs? A UK firm says yes, because emojis would be harder to hack. Smiling sun, flames, guitar, penguin… that is just one combination of emojis ...

Tech consultancy company DataGenetics has analyzed the popularity of numeric passwords. What they found confirms previous research that most of our four-digit PINs (e.g., for credit and debit cards) ...