Financial accounts and more than 350,000 Social Security numbers belonging to current and former staff members and students at UNC-Charlotte were exposed to the Internet.

 

Four members of an Armenian organized crime ring were convicted in one of the largest bank fraud and identity theft schemes in California history.

For the 12th year in a row, identity theft complaints topped the list of top consumer complaints received by The Federal Trade Commission.

The recently released 2012 Javelin Strategy & Research Identity Fraud Report shows that the number of identity fraud incidents increased by 13 percent in 2011, totaling 11.6 million adult victims.

A study from the UC Berkeley Law School's Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy says that creating an identity for all legal American workers using fingerprints or vein scans is a bad idea.

White House and other federal officials are actively urging private technology companies to create an ecosystem of identity management solutions that are interoperable.