Payment card security code (CVV, CVC, CID)
ID bankcard_cvv
DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft
This record is a draft: it has not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong. Do not rely on it for compliance decisions. Help improve it (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
Short code printed on a payment card that card-not-present transactions use to show that the payer holds the card. Visa calls it CVV2, Mastercard CVC2 and American Express CID. Most networks print three digits on the back of the card; American Express prints four digits on the front. Card rules forbid storing it after authorization, so its presence in a data set is a finding on its own. The digits alone cannot be told apart from other short numbers.
- Categories
- Personally identifiable information, Finances and banking
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 85/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- Amazon Macie, Amazon Comprehend, Azure AI Language PII detection, Collibra Data Classification, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), OpenMetadata auto-classification
Regular expression
^\d{3,4}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 418 | Constructed three-digit code (Visa, Mastercard, Discover) |
| 7193 | Constructed four-digit code (American Express) |
| 41 invalid | Too short |
Sources
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/bankcard_cvv - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/finances/bankcard_cvv.yamlon GitHub