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

A company that provides software used by schools across New Hampshire says student and teacher data was accessed in a recent breach.

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 ...

Due to no fault of your own, your personal information could be anywhere. The current highest number of data breaches in a ...

911 calls to one south Phoenix street have amounted to the hundreds, since 2021. In November, ABC15 went to talk with neighbors in the community near 7th Street and Alta Vista Road. One neighbor, who ...

The annual report by the agency’s national taxpayer advocate also flagged ongoing problems with the troubled Employee ...

A New Jersey father says hackers took over his family's phones and accounts and even changed their home address.

CBS News New York investigative reporter Mahsa Saeidi spoke to one of the family members about the ordeal and got tips from ...

Disgraced former congressman George Santos, facing a federal prison sentence, has won a few months' freedom to come up with ...

Roughly 1.2 million taxpayers faced incredibly long waits last year for their tax refund cash after getting hit by tax-related ID theft, report says.

The Identity Theft Resource Center made several predictions for 2025, stating that identity theft, cyber crime, and scams will continue to increase.

Vehicle thefts done through identity theft, synthetic identities and similar schemes are on the rise as lucrative fraud opportunities elsewhere dry up and vehicle prices remain robust. Their ...