Security is Important
Safeguard your money and identity with the assistance of these guides.
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Safeguard your money and identity with the assistance of these guides.
At Highland Bank, we’re making an important investment to help us mitigate the risk of cyber threats and keep our customers’ financial and personal information safe. In order to better serve our customers, we are pleased to announce that we have transitioned our website domain to HIGHLAND.BANK.
.BANK is a trusted, verified, more secure and easily identifiable internet location for our Online banking customers who conduct their personal and business banking with us.
We are delighted to adopt .BANK for our Online Customers. The increased value of our new HIGHLAND.BANK domain enables us to build a high-trust environment for our customers that can provide a safer barrier against cyber-crime. To watch a video about what .BANK does, click here!
Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus, experienced a massive data breach. The hackers accessed people’s names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers. They also stole credit card numbers for about 209,000 people and dispute documents with personal identifying information for about 182,000 people.
If you have a credit report, there’s a good chance it was. Go to a special website set up by Equifax to find out: https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Potential Impact,” enter some personal information and the site will tell you if you’ve been affected. Be sure you’re on a secure network (not public wi-fi) when you submit sensitive data over the internet.
Identity Theft occurs when someone obtains another person’s personal identifying information, without lawful authority, for economic gain or criminal purposes.
Stay alert for signs of identity theft, including:
Learn about Highland Bank’s ID Theft Procedure »
“Phishing” (as in ‘fishing’ for confidential information) is a general term for criminals’ creation and use of emails and websites, designed to look like emails and websites of well-known legitimate businesses, financial institutions, and government agencies, in order to deceive internet users into disclosing their bank and financial account information or other personal data such as usernames and passwords. The “phishers” then take that information and use it for criminal purposes, such as identity theft and fraud.
If you’ve been hooked by a Phisher, act immediately.
Now that digital devices are so common in our daily lives that we often take them for granted, smart cyber security practices are essential. Knowing what your risks are and incorporating these basic will help protect you from cyber thieves.
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