Cyber criminals are using a variety of methods to steal money from victims' bank accounts in illegal wire transfers, sometimes even raising the limit of a transfer to get more money. 

Lack of protection of chip and PIN cards and card skimming are raising losses.

The Internal Revenue Service has been looking the other way instead of rooting out fraud when people apply for taxpayer identification numbers, Treasury Department investigators said.

An elaborate scheme to defraud Comcast of more than $2.4 million has been uncovered, and 22 are charged in connection with the conspiracy.

Recent allegations of mismanagement and spending abuse by the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program has Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley seeking answers from Janet Napolitano.

Twelve-million pieces of personal information online are in the hands of fraudsters from the first quarter of 2012 alone.

The rate of fraudulent online transactions originating in Europe jumped to 2.1 percent from 1.3 percent in 2011. 

Security breach at credit card processing company Global Payments may have gone on for months.

A hospital employee in Matteson, Ill., has been charged with stealing patients' credit card information to pay her bills.