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That's what I said.

> Of course the bank has your PIN (or hashed PIN)

All the previous poster said was that the bank said they sent him a card with the same PIN. The bank can do this by storing PINs or hashed PINs.

As rrobukef noted, storing a PIN hashed offers little additional security as storing them unhashed because of the small number of unique PINS that are possible.