Kids in foster care are also particularly vulnerable to identity theft. In an attempt to remedy this, federal law requires states to run credit checks on foster kids over the age of 14 ...

Criminals combine a real person's Social Security number with other real or made-up details to trick credit issuers.

One in four kids will be the victim of identity theft or fraud. Here’s how the government is making it worse. Children are surprisingly frequent victims of identity theft—around 25 percent of them ...

Among victims of child identity theft in the past six years, 96% were active social media users when their identities were compromised and they subsequently suffered financial losses linked to ...

This year’s complimentary report, supported by TransUnion and the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), finds that as a result of having a larger social media and online presence across ...