This follows a wave of scam emails reported in late February, where fraudsters were impersonating the SSA. The messages ...

Identity theft tied to major data broker breaches has cost Americans more than $20 billion over the past decade, according to a 2026 report from the U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee. That figure ...

Identity theft covers financial, medical, tax, employment, child, criminal and synthetic fraud. Each type can have severe consequences on your life, including damaging your credit and negatively ...

Identity theft remains a rising issue for consumers. In the first three quarters of 2025, the Federal Trade Commission reported that a staggering 1.15 million people were victims of identity theft.

Proactively freezing your credit is one of the best defenses against scammers. *** credit freeze blocks lenders from accessing your credit report, and since new accounts typically require *** credit ...

Child identity theft happens when someone steals a child’s personal information for fraudulent use. Children’s data is vulnerable to theft because a child’s credit profile is typically empty. “Thieves ...

An accused scammer busted in a $17 million identity theft ring lived a lavish life in a gleaming North Hollywood mansion where he swindled millions out of wealthy elderly victims, prosecutors said.

A Hudson County woman has been indicted on charges she used fake identification documents to obtain debit cards and steal more than $86,000 from multiple victims, authorities said. Ibelis Gonzalez, 46 ...