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

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 ...

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

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, but most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Families have a right to know if cops nicked their dead kids’ identities, Heather Williams QC said ... It has been revealed that one undercover policeman used the identity of a dead boy to infiltrate ...

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 multiple ...