Getting your identity stolen is anything but a rarity these days. In 2024, more than 1.1 million Americans filed identity ...

Last year, 30% of Americans reported having their identities stolen, with credit card fraud being the most common type of ...

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), there were more than 650,000 victims of identity theft in 2019, making ID theft the most-reported type of FTC complaint. Protecting your identity ...

A quick look at the Fraud and ID Theft Maps of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows 841,810 reports of ID theft by the ...

With identity theft cases rising nationwide, more consumers are discovering unfamiliar accounts or inquiries on their credit ...

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The number of identity theft complaints rose from about 86,000 in 2001 to about 162,000 last year, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. The figures come from a government database of ...

The FCC announced Wednesday that identity theft complaints accounted for 36 percent of the 674,000 complaints it received last year. Click here to email reporter Dan Kaplan.

Identity theft cost U.S. businesses $55.7 billion in 2006, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. The FTC estimates that in 2006 the cost to consumers was $1.2 billion.

Impostor scams accounted for 406,578 of the 3,050,374 consumer complaints received in 2016 by the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network, just above the 399,225 received for identity theft, the agency said.