About 27.3 million U.S. residents have been victims of identity theft during the past five years, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission, but the agency is unsure how ...

Identity theft remained top of mind among U.S. consumers last year, but complaints about Internet auction fraud dropped noticeably, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Federal Trade ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - The FTC released Wednesday the list of top consumer fraud complaints received by the agency in 2007, and identity theft tops the list for the 7th year in a row. FTC data showed that ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Federal Trade Commission got more than a million reports of identity theft last year. Those victims lost more than $10 billion combined. FOX5 wraps up ID Theft awareness ...

Many people contact the police when their wallets are stolen. But they rarely need to when they are the victims of identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. Report the theft to the ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – It’s Identity Theft Awareness Week and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says identity theft can happen to anyone and can take many forms. The agency and its partners are ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Federal Trade Commission is educating consumers on how to protect themselves from identity theft. This can happen to anyone at any time, especially now as tax season gets ...

In an effort to buttress its enforcement and better understand the scourge that is identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission said today its plans to conduct a wide-ranging study of victims of the ...

According to UC Berkeley study, Bank of America, Sprint, and AT&T top list of identity theft events, but several banks and telcos compromised too Compromised accounts within just 25 companies account ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even federal regulators were surprised by what the most comprehensive government study of identity theft turned up: nearly 10 million victims and a loss of $53 billion for ...

The Federal Trade Commission will wade into an emerging debate on the nature of identity crime when it releases its latest ID theft statistics at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. The data, set to ...