Hackers seem to have a pretty easy time cracking PIN systems like those used on ATMs. A company called Tri-Pin says they have a solution to the problem.

Hackers seem to have a pretty easy time cracking PIN systems like those used on ATMs.

By recording customers as they punch theirs in, the security codes can be quickly obtained, leaving personal accounts vulnerable to theft.

A company called Tri-Pin says they have a solution to the problem.

They’ve redesigned the keypad itself, adding colors and shapes to the PIN options.

Each key has a number, a color, and an image, and your code would contain a combination of one or all three elements.

So, instead of your pin being, say, 1234, it could become 1,blue,triangle,yellow.

Here’s where it gets really clever.

Each time a screen presents, the order and combinations of the colors and shapes changes, resulting in a different button-pressing order. As each key has three options, telling which was the intended entry is tough to figure.

Recording devices would no doubt be particularly challenged when trying to solve that kind of PIN puzzle.

Apps that incorporate the system are set to start rolling out soon.

And before you think changing the keypads on every ATM in the world presents a big challenge, the company notes that banks could simply offer a touch screen graphic to correspond with the keypad.