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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Normally a debit card uses a pin, and a credit card doesn’t (you sign instead of putting in a pin).

But online, you never put in a pin. You just put in your card number, security code (3 numbers on the back), and expiration date. So a hacker (or rather, fraud-committer) already doesn’t need your pin to make online transactions.

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