Identity fraud is rising in the United States, but the timing does not always line up with the breach behind it. Consumers lost $27.3 billion to traditional identity fraud in 2025, according to ...

Cybercriminals are getting craftier about stealing data and scamming victims. ID theft services can help you monitor your ...

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The Internal Revenue Service has improved its ability to flag returns for signs of identity theft, adjusting its filters to ...

How quickly theft is realized: When identity theft goes unchecked for years (as is often the case with identity theft of a ...

An impostor allegedly stole $751,430 from a Colgate-Palmolive employee's 401(k) by calling the recordkeeper and changing the account contact information.

Our survey of 1,500 identity theft victims reveals total financial losses, common fraud types, and how identity theft impacts ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Student loan identity theft happens when a scammer uses your information to apply for financial assistance and take out ...

Matthew Keirans used William Woods's identity for decades, then manipulated police into prosecuting Woods, who spent 428 days in jail and 147 days in a mental hospital before DNA evidence proved his ...