When you lock your Social Security number, a company looking to verify your SSN won't be able to verify your identity, stopping criminals from committing fraud. This option is also handy if you don't ...

Children are a target of identity theft for many reasons. At the top of the list is they don't typically have credit reports. Holly Johnson is a credit card expert and writer who covers rewards and ...

What happened to my ZDNet colleague Matthew Miller this month is the stuff nightmares are made of. The title pretty much says it all: "SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Google won't ...

[Read: How to Protect Yourself From Fraud and Identity Theft.] What Is Identity Theft? This crime occurs when someone steals your information, such as your Social Security number or name, to commit ...

On Nov. 8, investment platform Robinhood announced that a data breach revealed the personal information of more than 7 million of its customers. According to a statement made by the company, the ...

(Nick Clements also contributes to Forbes with his blog, which can be found here.) Identity theft impacts more than 17 million consumers every year, and consumers over 50 can be particularly ...

This is National Consumer Protection Week, so it's an opportune time to dust off your consumer power skills. U.S. News & World Report did a consumer protection survey in February and asked ...

In 2017, over a million children were affected by identity fraud. Families paid over $540 million in out-of-pocket costs towards a total of $2.6 billion in losses. While parents already have plenty to ...

Identity theft is worse in some ways than other forms of fraud, because it can remain undetected for a long time. There were 726,396 cases of ID theft overall in the first three quarters of 2024 alone ...

DUBLIN, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Identity Theft Protection Services Market Outlook 2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global identity theft ...

There are a number of factors to consider when buying a new home: property value, neighborhood crime statistics, public school system quality, taxes and more. Now homebuyers can add another ...

“All the technology we have been warning about for a while are starting to come to fruition in these protests,” Dave Maass, a senior investigative researcher at digital rights group the Electronic ...