eli5 How Can Someone Hack your credit card just by knowing the credit card number ?

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Aren’t people supposed to know your pin in order to buy stuff with it? I haven’t had my credit card yet since I’m still a teen But I really wanna know how this works and why People constantly worry the msot about the credit card number

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Online purchases don’t use your pin, they only use the numbers on your card (number, CVV, and expiration date). If you have those three, you could wipe a card out with Amazon purchases or whatever.

Even in person, the PIN isn’t really super important: it’s more requested for verifying a transaction’s origin, rather than allowing the transaction itself.

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