Every online purchase, saved password, and social media account is an opportunity for criminals to steal personal data.

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From AI-powered scam detection to data removal and remote access blocking, here are the best tools to help protect your identity, money, and more. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, ...

Millions of Americans worry about theft of their financial identity and personal data. Wayne from New York recently called The Clark Howard Podcast to ask if identity theft insurance is worth it. He's ...

In 2025, more than 6.4 million cases of identity theft and fraud were estimated to have been reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It is a stark contrast from 2019, when just 3.5 million ...

Preventing identity theft isn’t easy without help, and many people don’t realize they’ve become victims until after damage occurs. That’s where identity theft protection services save you some serious ...

NORTHBROOK, Ill., April 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Allstate is providing millions of customers identity theft protection at no additional cost to help protect the things that matter most to them. This ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Americans are losing billions of dollars each year to fraud as identity theft cases continue to climb — and experts say it’s becoming harder to detect. More than 1 million ...

A woman visited the police station at 6:26 p.m. April 5 to report identity fraud and theft. She had concerns about people breaking into her house and other suspicious activities. An officer went to ...

There's been a surge in conversation around Social Security scams in recent weeks. In early April, the Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a warning on ...

Google has rolled out Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) protection in Chrome 146 for Windows, designed to block info-stealing malware from harvesting session cookies. macOS users will benefit ...

A man who federal agents had sought to question in connection with the disappearance of his girlfriend -- who turned up dead in Mexico -- appeared in San Diego federal court Monday on charges of using ...