A woman has been indicted by a New Jersey state grand jury in the theft of more than $86,000 through an elaborate debit card ...

Employment-related identity theft happens when someone uses your personal information, commonly a Social Security number, to get hired for jobs and earn income illegally. In many cases, victims don't ...

Identity theft linked to major data broker breaches has cost Americans more than $20 billion over the past decade, according to a U.S. Senate report.

BUNA, Texas — Authorities say a Florida woman is wanted in connection with an identity theft case involving an 81-year-old resident of Buna after investigators say the suspect used the victim’s ...

Eleven people were arrested for stealing elderly people’s identities then use the information to get loans in Southern California, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Federal ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A convicted bank robber was sentenced Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles to 44 months in federal prison for running a nearly $1 million fraud scheme that targeted surfers at beaches ...

Even for the person in charge of protecting the data of an entire city, total privacy is elusive. Ginger Armbruster, Seattle’s chief data privacy officer, recently found herself on the other side of a ...

A new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) sheds light on the emotional toll of identity theft and it explains why the losses extend well beyond the financial. The center conducted its ...

The seven types of identity theft are financial, medical, tax, employment, child, criminal and synthetic.

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.