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 ...

Identity theft is as pervasive as ever. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Fraud and ID Theft Maps shows 748,555 reports of ...

A Shelby Middle School teacher was arrested after investigators said she used a Georgia woman’s identity to fraudulently get ...

Data breaches that expose the personal information of millions of people can have very real consequences for individuals, most notably: identity theft. A new study found that the more of a person’s ...

Combined with other personal information - such as a victim's full name, birth date and home address - a Social Security number can be used to open fraudulent credit accounts using a victim's identity ...

On Friday, August 15, officers were notified of a fraud-related incident that was reported to investigators in Gwinnett ...