Student scammed $8,000 won't be reimbursed because she used phone number digits as PIN

A Toronto student says her bank is refusing to reimburse the thousands of dollars stolen from her debit card’s overdraft account because her PIN was the last four digits of her phone number. Dana Roeger said she was at Yorkdale Shopping Centre with friends the last time she used her debit card at a Starbucks, and it was only on her way back to Ottawa, where she is a university student, that she discovered it was missing. “I hadn't realized that the card had gone missing until I was t