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Does your phone use one of these common PINs?

A recent Pocket-lint blog post reported about the 20 most common mobile phone passcodes (AKA “PINs”) used by mobile phone users revealed in 2019 by a cybersecurity expert. This blog post also lists the most common four-digit and six-digit PINs as determined in 2020 by a German-American team of IT security researchers.

Users of one of these insecure PINs are encourged to read the “How to change your mobile phone PIN” section of the Pocket-lint blog post to learn how to change their PIN.