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Get alerted if a cybercriminal is using your financial accounts

Michael Spiro

Cybercriminals have more subtle ways of using your personal data to take financially take advantage of you than opening a credit card in your name or filing a tax return in your name. If they get access to your banking information, they may try to only make small transactions using your existing accounts in the hope that you don't notice.

We recommend turning on alerts for all transactions with your financial institutions. Getting an email, text, or push notification every time a purchase, withdrawal, transfer, trade, etc is made, is a low effort way to give yourself peace of mind that you are the only one doing things with your money!

Here are links to more information about the security alerts you can enable with some of the most popular financial institutions. Note that some of these companies offer more customizable and complete notification features. If the features made available to you aren’t great, consider switching!