---
id: 8284
title: "Cracking Credit Card Hashes with PowerShell"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/cracking-credit-card-hashes-with-powershell/"
published_at: "2013-06-13T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["powershell", "password-cracking", "brute-force", "pci", "pan", "credit-card-hashes"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8284"
lang: en
---

# Cracking Credit Card Hashes with PowerShell

## Summary

PCI assessments often find hashed card numbers stored with the first six and last four digits. Fixed-length PANs shrink the keyspace, and the post cracks such hashes with PowerShell.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2013-06-13T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/cracking-credit-card-hashes-with-powershell/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8284