As we can see, disclosure of personal and financial information online may have a certain risk of financial and personal data theft. There are several steps we can take to safeguard our personal and financial information.
- Do not share the password and login ID with others. The password and login ID should change periodically.
- Disclose the personal and financial information whenever it is necessary required and make sure there is a clear guideline to safeguard data privacy.
- Save the personal or financial information into removable storage instead of keep it into computer.
- Check to make sure the contact is legitimate before disclose the personal or financial data on the phone, through the mail.
- Be aware when using third-party computers that we are not familiar, fully logged off is necessary.
- Do not open an email if we are not recognize the sender and never download the attachment-it could contain a security threat, like Trojan and Spy ware.
- Care must be taken before respond to competitions, surveys or promotions which may be an intention to steal the information.
- Anti virus, firewall and anti-spam software are vital for our computer, regularly update is required.
- Make sure there is a “lock” icon before submit the information online.
- Detected the Phishing Attack to protect ourselves. There are some typical characteristics of Phishing Attack which included an email contain an ‘urgent’ tone, email within an attachment and a pop-up window appears from an unrecognized company’s website. Additional information can be found at www.antiphishing.org.
The risk of your financial and personal data being theft can be lower if you are able to follow above steps.
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