 A growing threat to sailors and DOD networks is the increasing occurrence of a cyber attack called fishing. Fishing is the attempt to acquire sailors' information or gain access to a network by masquerading as a trustworthy entity through electronic communication. Fishing happens to everybody. Nobody is exempt from fishing. The only thing you can do is try to avoid becoming a victim of it. Steps sailors should take to avoid falling victim are identify the email sender, use caution when approaching emails with strange subjects, and avoid clicking links or opening attachments that are suspicious. So your bank is never ever going to ask you for your personal information. They are never going to ask you to verify your account number or anything that has to do with your account. If you get an email from your bank that asks you to do that, you need to delete it and report it to your security manager. For more tips to protect your information, go to navy.mil.