Back in 2004, Congress decided to tackle the problem of "identity theft." It was responding to much-publicized cases in which criminals obtained credit cards in other people's names, sticking them ...

The IRS is far too slow in resolving a major problem for taxpayers, who must wait almost two years for the tax agency to clear up identity theft cases, according to a new report from the National ...

Standards body the Liberty Alliance Project believes it can contribute something currently missing from the ongoing debate on tackling identity theft — a lexicon of terms defining exactly what ...

Employment ID theft isn't the same as a fake job scam, but it can have a real negative impact on your life. Geoff Williams is a journalist and author. His byline has appeared in numerous publications, ...

Identity theft has become so commonplace that it no longer shocks you to hear about the latest scam. As normalized as identity theft has become, identity thieves are getting savvier and more creative ...

To protect your credit, immediately contact your bank and credit card issuer and place a fraud alert with one of the three ...

If you’d asked me in 2018 whether I was likely to be a victim of identity theft, I would have said no. I used free credit monitoring. I had unique passwords and two-factor authentication on all my ...

Clint Proctor is a lead editor with the credit cards and travel rewards team at Forbes Advisor. He has five years of experience in personal finance journalism and has contributed to a variety of ...