The Internal Revenue Service has improved its ability to flag returns for signs of identity theft, adjusting its filters to ...

A California woman says her estranged husband filed a joint federal tax return using her Social Security number without her ...

An impostor allegedly stole $751,430 from a Colgate-Palmolive employee's 401(k) by calling the recordkeeper and changing the ...

A passport pic on your phone sells for $600 on the dark web. Your photos contain GPS coordinates, faces, license plates and ...

It’s important to act ASAP if you suspect identify theft.

Tax season already comes with enough stress to power an entire coffee industry, but this year many taxpayers hit an extra speed bump after filing their returns. Refunds that normally show up within a ...

The Conduent breach, called the largest in U.S. history by Texas AG Ken Paxton, exposed millions of records. Here's how to protect your identity now.

Deed theft has come to the forefront of NYC politics after Council Member Chi Ossé was arrested last week for protesting an eviction. Ossé said that the Bed-Stuy eviction was a result of deed theft, ...

Each year, millions of Americans experience identity theft. In many cases, a stolen Social Security number (SSN) gives criminals the foothold they need to open credit cards, file fraudulent tax ...

A federal appeals court has upheld a 12-year prison sentence for a Wisconsin man who stole another person's identity for decades and manipulated the criminal justice system to have his victim jailed ...

In 1785, Immanuel Kant introduced his famous “categorical imperative.” Put simply: Act the way you want others to behave. This dictate, a version of the Golden Rule, has been a bedrock of moral ...