When you lock your Social Security number, a company looking to verify your SSN won't be able to verify your identity, stopping criminals from committing fraud. This option is also handy if you don't ...

Identity theft is as pervasive as ever. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Fraud and ID Theft Maps shows 748,555 reports of ...

Discord has revealed the theft of around 70,000 government-issued ID photos in a recent data breach. The platform was targeted by cybercriminals who compromised one of Discord's t ...

Charles Borges, chief data officer for the Social Security Administration (SSA), filed a complaint in late August claiming ...

Focus on what you can do to make yourself less of a target. Start by freezing your credit reports at the three major bureaus.

On Friday, August 15, officers were notified of a fraud-related incident that was reported to investigators in Gwinnett ...

Data breaches that expose the personal information of millions of people can have very real consequences for individuals, most notably: identity theft. A new study found that the more of a person’s ...

Rutherford County Schools recently notified people about compromised private information after the district's 2024 ...

In an age of constant data breaches, protecting your identity is more important than ever. Bitdefender and Norton are our top-rated security suites with ID theft protection, but which one should you ...

Although most of us think of the typical scam victim as an older person, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in ...

A Kansas City woman was sentenced in federal court  for her leadership role in two cases that resulted in more than ...

Who’s to blame for the growing epidemic of identity-related tax fraud? All of us — -- The other day a reporter asked me who’s to blame for the growing epidemic of identity-related tax fraud. I ...