Are you at risk? Are your customers? Let's look at some of the ways identity theft is happening and ways of preventing it. Stealing identities is a nationwide epidemic. Identity theft has become a ...

Convicted identity thief shares a few of her favorite targets. — -- There’s no better way to ask how someone’s identity can be stolen than by asking an identity thief herself. So that’s exactly ...

Paying bills, scheduling appointments, applying for jobs — we share personal information with businesses and other people nearly every day. Since so much of our data is shared online, it’s easy to ...

Thirty percent of credit card holders think their identities will be stolen in the future, according to a new report. The younger the consumers questioned, the more likely they were to say they had a ...

As many as nine million Americans have their identities stolen each year, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Identity thieves may use your personal information to access your financial ...

Every few months, we hear about another data breach that exposes the personal information of millions of people. But the most recent discovery is massive. Security researchers uncovered a staggering ...

Who’s to blame for the growing epidemic of identity-related tax fraud? All of us — -- The other day a reporter asked me who’s to blame for the growing epidemic of identity-related tax fraud. I ...

Learn how to protect yourself and others from identity theft and other scams Sept. 3 in Park Ridge. Representatives of Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office will lead a presentation on ...

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Greater Maryland is warning that posting your child's back-to-school photos online can pose a security risk, especially if those photos include personal information ...