A credit monitoring service can notify you when a credit application has been made in your name. Here are our favorites.

Banks use secret reports about your banking history to approve new accounts, and fraud could be hiding there.

A background check can sink a job offer if prospective employers don’t like what they see. While they can request to have a lot of information about a job candidate’s past included in such a report, ...

A massive credit report and identity verification company has suffered a data breach, compromising the sensitive personal and financial information of millions of Americans. 700Credit, which provides ...

An Aflac breach impacted more than 22 million customers. Stolen were Social Security numbers and other personal data. Aflac is offering free credit monitoring and other services. Most of us probably ...

The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate by 0.25 percentage points to around 0.75%, a three-decade high, and signalled its readiness to continue monetary tightening if conditions are right. The yen ...

It’s the holiday shopping/scamming season. And that makes it a good time to think about protecting yourself from the dangers of identity theft. These days, the fraudsters are so sophisticated that ...

700Credit, one of the largest credit report and identity services providers for the automotive industry in North America, has suffered a wide-ranging data breach, with more than 5.8 million ...

700Credit, a U.S.-based financial services and fintech company, will start notifying more than 5.8 million people that their personal information has been exposed in a data breach incident. The ...

Hackers stole names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers from the credit report and identity verification services provider. Credit report and identity verification services ...