Interesting Fact About ATM PIN: Nowadays digital transactions have made the work of transactions very easy. Earlier people had to wait for hours in long queues at the bank to withdraw cash, but today the time has changed. ATM facility started and people got relief from going round the banks. Now people just take their ATM card and go to the nearest ATM machine cabin and withdraw cash. To withdraw cash from an ATM machine, you have to enter your four digit PIN in it. Have you ever wondered why there are only four numbers in the ATM PIN? Can ATM PIN be more than 4 digits? Today through this article we will tell you about this
Why was the 4 digit PIN kept?
Even though today you withdraw your money from ATM machine by entering 4 numbers PIN, but in reality it was kept 6 numbers in the beginning, because in terms of security, 6 numbers PIN was better than 4. However, this made people uncomfortable and many times some people even started forgetting their PIN. Due to these inconveniences caused by this and the problems of forgetting the PIN several times, it was again kept of 4 numbers. It is not that pin number 6 is not used anywhere. In many countries in the world even today there is a 6 number ATM PIN. Many banks in our country also give their customers the facility to create a PIN of 6 numbers. By keeping a pin of 6 numbers, another person does not remember someone’s pin quickly and at the same time it is not so easy to hack the pin of this number.
6 digit pin more secure
Significantly, the 4 digit PIN ranges from 0000 to 9999. With this 10000 different pin numbers can be kept, in which 20% of the pins can be hacked. Although it is a tedious task, a 4 digit PIN is slightly less secure than a 6 digit PIN.
Who invented ATM?
The ATM machine was invented in the year 1969. It was invented by a Scottish scientist John Adrian Shepherd Barron. You will find this information very interesting that the person who invented the ATM was born in the city of Shillong located in the North East of India. John Adrian Shepherd Barron has saved people from a big problem with this great invention of his.
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