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Protect Your Bank Account

Protect your bank account from scams and fraud with expert tips on passwords, multi-factor authentication, and safe online banking practices.

By Michael McCullough on October 31, 2025. Estimated reading time: 5 minutes.

This is part of a series of columns about how to protect important information and people in your life against fraud and scams.

“People don’t go to an ATM or into a bank a lot anymore, instead they mostly log in on our laptops or mobile devices,”

says Octavia Howell, vice-president and chief information security officer for Equifax Canada. Banking from your phone or computer is convenient, but it leaves a lot of the security that used to be undertaken by the bank up to the customer.

Author's summary: Protect bank account with expert tips.

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