While an average of 15 million Americans a year become victims of identity theft, there's an offshoot branch of this type of white-collar crime that's less talked about: medical identity theft. While ...

Financial identity theft is bad enough. But lesser-known medical identity theft could be even worse. This eye-opening report from the World Privacy Forum says it ...

Financial identity theft is a vicious threat to our monetary resources. It can affect our ability to borrow, our bank transactions, and even our lifestyle. In many cases, people are aware of the ...

Medical identity theft can be used by criminals to see doctors on your dime, get access to prescription drugs, and commit insurance fraud. Victims often don’t know they are the victim of this kind of ...

Identity theft has become a top concern over the past decade, with an increasing number of Americans losing critical personal data that could compromise their safety. Among the surging threats, ...

"Medicare Fraud of the Month for April" ALBANY, N.Y., April 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide), a 53-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to ...

In 2014, nearly 9 million patient health records were breached in 164 reported incidents. By March 2015, that number had increased tenfold. In fact, it is estimated that one in three health records ...

Identity thieves are not only interested in tapping financial resources, but are also after your medical identification data and services. Medical identity theft typically involves stolen insurance ...

The use of electronic medical records (EMR) has become the norm. Medical records have been catapulted into electronic form and into the cloud by the advent of cloud computing, distributed data, and ...

Months after a devastating cancer diagnosis, a local woman hasn’t had a single treatment, all because of a scam that targets the poorest in our community. The woman learned someone took out an ...

NEW YORK -- Medical identity theft is a crime on the rise. Nearly 2.5 million cases were reported in 2014, an increase of 20 percent from the year before. A stolen medical identity can ruin your ...

Medical identity theft has been escalating dramatically where cybercriminals have found an industry ill-prepared to adequately protect itself from the onslaught. This article will briefly discuss the ...