US Dept. of Education launches crackdown on student aid fraud with new ID verification rules
In a sweeping response to an escalating wave of identity theft and fraud within federal student aid programs, the U.S….
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In a sweeping response to an escalating wave of identity theft and fraud within federal student aid programs, the U.S….
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed what they term “likely the biggest data leak to ever hit China,” with 4 billion records…
When Renata Galvão was just six years old, her identity was stolen and used to amass a US$400,000 debt. After…
Police and accredited agencies in New South Wales could soon have the ability to flag identity theft and reset stolen…
State privacy regulators are organizing to promote collaboration and information sharing, in what a release calls “the bipartisan effort to…
Public institutions and private companies have persistently failed to promptly notify individuals when their personal data has been exposed in…
Two new reports reveal a troubling dissonance between perceived security and actual preparedness. And when examined together, their findings draw…
The FBI recently issued a stark warning to the public in which it highlighted how criminal actors are exploiting U.S….
Organized crime groups are becoming more sophisticated and dangerous thanks to technological developments such as generative AI which is reducing…
In the worst tradition of disaster capitalism, fraudsters have targeted victims of California’s wildfires, committing identity theft to access financial…