Digitisation and, the closely related thereto, technological progress have also found their way into the cybercrime aspect. Particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon are institutions that handle confidential information – especially financial institutions. The main purpose of the paper is to present a typology of threats having an impact on the way of managing information by the users of electronic banking. The paper points out the need to understand the essence of information management security. It emphasises the importance of taking regular actions, not only in the organisational perspective, but also in the individual perspective. The results of secondary research, as analysed in the paper, allow to outline the scale of the cybercrime problem in electronic banking. Besides, they show a disturbingly low level of awareness among ordinary people as regards the application of security measures to increase the level of safety in the usage of financial services by individuals.