Country pack
Cyprus PII detection: Social insurance number, IBAN
Short answer
Maskflare's Cyprus pack has 5 detectors. 1 validates a check digit or letter, 1 tests layout or an embedded date, 3 match on pattern alone.
What the Cyprus pack covers
The Cyprus pack holds 5 detectors: IBAN, ID card / passport number, Phone number, Postal code and Social insurance number. 1 of them recomputes a check digit or letter, 1 tests layout or an embedded date only, 3 are pattern-only, and 3 wait for a keyword before they match.
| Detector | Category | Validation | Valid example |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBAN | bank account number (IBAN) | Checksum | CY17 0020 0128 0000 0012 0052 7600 |
| ID card / passport number | ID document number | Pattern only | 1234567 |
| Phone number | phone number | Layout rules | +357 22 123456 |
| Postal code | postal code | Pattern only | 1010 |
| Social insurance number | social security number | Pattern only | 7654321 |
Every Cyprus detector in detail
IBAN
A bank account identifier. Validation: the registered length for the country and the ISO 13616 modulus 97 check. Valid example: CY17 0020 0128 0000 0012 0052 7600; the same shape that fails is CY17 0020 0128 0000 0012 0052 7601.
ID card / passport number
An identity document number. Validation: the pattern only, with no checksum or structural validator. It needs one of 10 keywords within 48 characters before the value, such as document number, id card, id no, id number. Valid example: 1234567.
Phone number
A telephone number in the national format. Validation: between 7 and 15 digits, the range an international number can have. Valid example: +357 22 123456.
Postal code
A postal code, which identifies a place rather than a person on its own. Validation: the pattern only, with no checksum or structural validator. It needs one of 8 keywords within 48 characters before the value, such as post code, postal code, postcode, zip. Valid example: 1010.
Social insurance number
A social security or social insurance number. Validation: the pattern only, with no checksum or structural validator. It needs one of 6 keywords within 48 characters before the value, such as insurance number, social insurance, social security, ssn. Valid example: 7654321.
Local-language context words for Cyprus
These are the words in the catalogue that confirm a value as belonging to this country's detector. Shared English words such as ID number or tax id are left out here because many packs use them; a word below points at this pack even when other packs are on.
- ID card / passport number:
document number,αριθμός ταυτότητας,διαβατήριο,ταυτότητα - Postal code:
τ.κ.,ταχυδρομικός κώδικας - Social insurance number:
αριθμός κοινωνικών,κοινωνικών ασφαλίσεων
How Maskflare masks Cyprus identifiers
Detections are replaced with a token such as mf_mask_d7e0 before the request goes to the AI provider, and with response restoration turned on the real value is put back in the answer. The other actions are redact, partial, hash, format-preserving encryption, generalize, alert and block.
- Protect now, Finance - Protect now, Healthcare and Developer: mask (a reversible token) when Cyprus is a primary country.
- Monitor first: alert (counted, forwarded unchanged) when Cyprus is a primary country.
Compliance profiles that include the Cyprus pack: GDPR - EU/EEA.
Limits worth knowing
- A passing checksum shows that a value is well formed, not that it was issued to a real person. The examples on this page pass for that reason and are not real.
- 3 of the 5 detectors here match on pattern alone (ID card / passport number, Postal code and Social insurance number), so they can match text that merely has the same shape.
- Detectors read the text of the request. A value inside an image is found only after OCR, and a value split across lines is not one match.
- Names, addresses and free-text details are handled by other packs. This page is limited to the Cyprus identifiers.
Frequently asked questions
What does Maskflare detect for Cyprus?
5 detectors: IBAN, ID card / passport number, Phone number, Postal code and Social insurance number.
Are Cyprus identifiers masked by default?
They are masked when Cyprus is chosen as a primary country (the default Protect now template uses the action mask), or when the pack is turned on directly. A country pack is not on for organisations that did not choose the country.
Which Cyprus identifiers have a checksum?
IBAN.
Do the Cyprus detectors need keywords?
3 of them do: ID card / passport number, Postal code and Social insurance number.
Rules on this page describe what Maskflare's detectors and validators check. They are read from the detection catalogue and are not the specification of the body that issues the identifier. Examples are synthetic.