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

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

A Newark airport security supervisor has been accused of using the identity of a slain New York man for 20 years.

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.

 

The Social Security numbers of 2.5 million deceased Americans are used each year.

Utah state officials have revised the number of victims three times since the breach was discovered last week Monday.

Thousands of Medicaid clients in Utah are victims of hackers who broke into a server at the Utah Department of Health last week. 

In the age of smartphones, tablets and BYOD, data stored on portable electronics is more vulnerable than ever.

A study from an international online security firm has discovered that the most popular computer password for business men and women continues to be “Password” or some variation thereof.

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