The invention discloses a display method and terminal of sensitive information. Graphic preprocessing is carried out on the to-be-displayed sensitive information to obtain a first picture; a theme color of the first picture is extracted, and an inverse color of the theme color is acquired to obtain a background color; the first picture is equally divided into M square sub-pictures, N sub-picturesare selected therefrom to be used as key areas, and 0 < N <= M; user identifiers are used to generate a two-dimensional code picture, the user identifiers are in one-to-one correspondence with users with authority to view the sensitive information, and the size of the two-dimensional code picture is the same as the size of the sub-pictures; and the first picture, the background color, the key areas and the two-dimensional code picture are synthesized into a plurality of incomplete pictures, each incomplete picture contains the two-dimensional code picture, frame-by-frame rendering is carried out on the plurality of incomplete pictures at a preset rate, and a union of the plurality of incomplete pictures is the first picture. Leakage of the sensitive information can be effectively avoided,and security of the sensitive information can be improved.