CēsisBanka

Security

What we will never ask you for.

Almost every loss to fraud begins with a payment the customer authorised themselves, while being told a convincing story. The most useful thing we can publish is a short list of things that are always a lie.

Nobody from this bank will ever ask for:

  • Your password, in full or in part.
  • Your card PIN.
  • A one-time code we have sent you.
  • Remote access to your computer or telephone.
  • That you move money to a “safe account”. There is no such thing.

If a call, message or email asks for any of these, it is not us. End the conversation and telephone +370 5 210 4400 yourself, using a number you looked up rather than one you were given.

If something is wrong

What to do, in order.

  1. 1

    Freeze the card

    From the Cards screen in your dashboard. It stops every new authorisation immediately and can be undone.

  2. 2

    Check your statement

    Look for anything you do not recognise, including small amounts — a test charge often precedes a large one.

  3. 3

    Telephone us

    Call +370 5 210 4400. The line for lost and stolen cards is answered at any hour.

On our side

What we do to protect the account.

Payments are reviewed by a person

Money does not leave the bank automatically. Every outbound payment is released by a banker, which is deliberately slower than an instant transfer and is the single control that most reliably stops a payment made under pressure.

Passwords are never stored

We keep a scrypt hash — a one-way transformation with a deliberately high memory cost. Even with a copy of our database, recovering a password from it is impractical. It also means we genuinely cannot tell you what your password is, only set a new one.

Sessions can be ended

Sessions are held server-side rather than in a self-contained token, so we can end every session on an account the moment there is a reason to. Changing your password ends them all.

Every privileged action is recorded

Anything a member of staff does to your account — an adjustment, a freeze, a password reset — writes an entry naming who did it and when. That record is append-only and cannot be edited from inside the application.