Although most of us think of the typical scam victim as an older person, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in ...

Many people contact the police when their wallets are stolen. But they rarely need to when they are the victims of identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. Report the theft to the ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – It’s Identity Theft Awareness Week and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says identity theft can happen to anyone and can take many forms. The agency and its partners are ...

The Federal Trade Commission will wade into an emerging debate on the nature of identity crime when it releases its latest ID theft statistics at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. The data, set to ...

The FTC’s shut down matters because it halts important consumer protection operations. While out of service, critical tasks ...

A government survey questions the conventional wisdom that identity theft is a growing problem in the U.S. But don’t toss out your shredder just yet. Consumer advocates are not convinced the Federal ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has once again pushed back its enforcement deadline for an identity theft –lated regulation called the Red Flags Rule. The rule requires financial institutions and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even federal regulators were surprised by what the most comprehensive government study of identity theft turned up: nearly 10 million victims and a loss of $53 billion for ...

According to UC Berkeley study, Bank of America, Sprint, and AT&T top list of identity theft events, but several banks and telcos compromised too Compromised accounts within just 25 companies account ...

A U.S. center that helps victims of identity theft will begin sharing consumer complaint information with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and law enforcement agencies, it announced Tuesday.