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In this feature article, we cover three strategies for stopping synthetic identity fraud.

Default privacy settings for many online gift registries, and the common practice of never deleting them, have created an identity...

New account fraud attacks increased 109 percent in the US according to Javelin Strategy’s most recent identity fraud study. Meanwhile,...

While there are some questions around the number of data breaches thus far, 2020 is shaping up to be a record year in terms of number of...

The state of Arkansas shut down their unemployment application website which exposed the PII of nearly 30,000 applicants and Illinois...

Wawa announced a large-scale malware compromise breaching payment cards processed at the pump or inside between March 4 and December 12,...

Issuing banks and financial institutions lost over $1.6 billion from stolen or synthetic identities used in credit card applications plus...

A recent survey from CaptialOne found that 26 percent of consumers believe Cyber Monday is the riskiest day of the year to shop online...

An Indiana couple made over 2,700 purchases from Amazon over the period of a few years, creating new accounts and morphing their...

While 19 percent of US adults who were notified of a data breach fell victim to identity fraud last year, more than twice as many...

...Data Breaches Nears All-Time High While Nearly 90 percent Included Victims’ SSNs Nearly 1,600 data breaches occurred in the United...

Uber, one of the latest companies to suffer a data breach, is suffering backlash not just for the 57 million user accounts compromised...

Following a data breach involving over 500 million accounts and a delay in notifying the public or impacted parties, the Securities and...

The late 2013 data breach impacting 70 million Target customers continues to cost the company which in their latest financial statements...

2015 will likely bring many changes and developments in the payments and risk industries, but none more anticipated than the EMV...

Less than $10 can purchase a scan of a false passport, driver’s license, or credit card with online delivery within seconds. Cyber...

Tax refund fraud is a growing crime that costs the federal government billions each year. Eleven members of an identity fraud ring...

Canada’s Regional Fraud Bureau along with Canadian police departments and the U.S. Secret Service carried out a raid on suspected...

A call center employee working in the UK was arrested after copying credit card information provided to him by customers over the phone...

A former employee at Saks Fifth Avenue faces felony credit card abuse charges after using fraudulent credit cards opened in the names of...