Everyone loves a gift card for their favorite retailer or restaurant. It’s like getting money to spend in any way you please! Unfortunately, scammers also love gift cards and for all the wrong reasons: They often use gift cards to pull off scams.

You spend a lot of time planning and browsing for holiday gifts. As retailers prepare to roll out their deals for the upcoming shopping season, people are buying gifts online more than ever. Here are some things to consider to make your holiday shopping more secure.

Data breaches show up in the news on a regular basis. According to Risk Based Security’s Mid-Year Data Breach Report, there were 1,767 publicly reported breaches in the first half of 2021, exposing 18.8 billion records.

Cybercrimes are increasing every year. Unfortunately, developments like the pandemic, the growth of cryptocurrency, and online working and shopping have created a target-rich environment for criminals.

With October being Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it's a good time to review your cybersecurity awareness.

Have you received a postcard regarding your mortgage that appears to be from TwinStar Credit Union? You aren’t alone.

It has come to our attention that The Office of the Washington State Auditor (SAO) recently had a data breach with the file transfer service Accellion.

Scammers are very active during weekends and long holidays, taking advantage of credit union closures and travelers. Unfortunately, they are often successful.

Protecting your account is now more important than ever. Criminals are using a method called “credential stuffing” to try and access accounts at financial institutions.

Protect yourself and those you love. In a recent scam targeting cash-strapped millennials, fraudsters are once again cashing in on people’s naivety and goodwill. This time they’re using social media to make it happen.

Riiiing! You race for the landline, but the caller has already hung up—after just one ring. How rude! You thumb through the Caller ID, poised to give your mysterious caller a ring back when you note the strange area code.

We’ve received multiple reports that fraudulent emails are being sent to our members attempting to obtain their private information. The emails state that the Member’s online account access has been blocked due to ongoing maintenance or that the Member needs to verify their account or identity by f

TwinStar has rolled out enhanced Fraud Detection notifications to members. Previously, we would call the phone number on your account to verify any suspicious transactions we detected.

The situation is becoming all too common: you receive a call while out shopping or perhaps during dinner. Perhaps you don’t recognize the number, but the person on the line identifies themselves as an employee of your financial institution. They speak urgently—there’s a problem with your account.

We’re seeing a rise in a new scam targeting teens and young adults in our area. This extremely damaging scam mainly works when a fraudster takes advantage of a victim’s naivety and commits fraud in the victim’s name.

If you lost your wallet today, could you identify what was in it?