During a demonstration, cybersecurity experts showed how readily available apps can transform a person's appearance in real ...

The seven types of identity theft are financial, medical, tax, employment, child, criminal and synthetic.

Unemployment identity theft occurs when someone uses another person's personal information, such as their Social Security number (SSN), to fraudulently claim unemployment benefits. This crime has ...

Identity theft can empty your bank account, destroy your credit rating, and leave you struggling with debts you didn’t incur. These are the top services we've tested to prevent, detect, and remediate ...

The rise of generative and agentic AI is fueling a wave of identity fraud, creating new challenges for state and local agencies. Nation-states, criminal gangs and others are using autonomous rogue AI ...

In recent years, synthetic identity fraud has quietly become one of the fastest-growing forms of financial crime. Now, with the explosion of AI, the threat is accelerating at an alarming pace.

Eleven people were arrested for stealing elderly people’s identities then use the information to get loans in Southern California, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Federal ...

The AI-powered solution helps universities detect fraudulent applications, streamline identity checks, and ensure ...

Identity theft linked to major data broker breaches has cost Americans more than $20 billion over the past decade, according ...

A 31-year-old woman was arrested on June 27 by the Redmond Police Department (RPD) in connection with a series of fraud and identity theft crimes, RPD announced. Jenna Fremling was arrested for using ...

Increasingly sophisticated fraud is on the rise. One of the fastest growing is synthetic identity fraud (SIF), which sees criminals creating new, false identities using a combination of real, stolen ...