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personal identification number
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short, numeric passcode used to access certain services such as ATMs
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Vinony's link graph records 408 inbound references to personal identification number, and connects out to Social Security number, American City Business Journals and bank.
It sits within the topics Banking terms, Identity documents and Password authentication.
Vinony links it to 42 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- unique identifier
- Subclass of
- password
- Image
- Full-size SIM card with PIN and PUK-2459.jpg
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/pin-code
- different from
- pin
- Commons category
- Personal identification number
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Encyclopedic overview
A personal identification number (PIN; sometimes redundantly a PIN code or PIN number) is a numeric (sometimes alpha-numeric) passcode used in the process of authenticating a user accessing a system.
The PIN has been the key to facilitating the private data exchange between different data-processing centers in computer networks for financial institutions, governments, and enterprises. PINs may be used to authenticate banking systems with cardholders, governments with citizens, enterprises with employees, and computers with users, among other uses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “personal identification number” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.