Fraud alerts and credit freezes help protect you from identity theft, either by alerting creditors to take extra steps to ...

Credit cards and banking specialist Jenn Underwood brings over 16 years of personal finance experience to the table. After a decade of teaching courses in banking, debt reduction, budgeting and credit ...

Credit freezes block many fraudulent applications but miss synthetic identity fraud, account takeovers and tax refund scams. Here is what else to do.

The tactics used to fight credit card scams are getting more sophisticated all the time. Unfortunately, so are the tactics used by credit card scammers. More than 2.3 million cases of fraud and ...

Yep -- got the email a couple of days ago, and it seems my personal info was caught up in a massive bank data breach. Hackers now have access to my full name, address, birthdate, email, phone number - ...