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If my PIN number is stored in a database, doesn that mean that bank or credit card employees have access to it?

April 26, 2017Bank credit card database employees mean Pin stored

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If my PIN number is stored in a database, doesn that mean that bank or credit card employees have access to it?

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The encryption method that’s used by ATM and credit cards is called ‘one-way encryption’. It makes it easy for the bank’s computer to verify the PIN given the bank’s key and the PIN, but nearly impossible to extract the PIN in text form from the encrypted database.