Money’s top picks for identity theft protection services.

Identity theft protection services offer monitoring and alerts to safeguard your personal information, and some services include help for restoration if your identity is stolen. It might be worth it ...

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), its Consumer Sentinel Network received almost 6.5 million reports in 2024 — 40% of which were for fraud and 18% were for identity theft. Indeed, ...

With 83% of consumers fearing they’ll become identity theft victims within two years and AI-generated scams becoming nearly indistinguishable from legitimate communications, traditional security ...

Increasingly sophisticated fraud is on the rise. One of the fastest growing is synthetic identity fraud (SIF), which sees criminals creating new, false identities using a combination of real, stolen ...

Synthetic identity fraud is not new to financial services. What has changed is the scale, sophistication, and the way it reshapes an institution’s overall security posture. Generative AI has ...

AI is reshaping the identity fraud landscape, helping cybercriminals deploy more sophisticated fraud schemes than ever, despite a global stagnation in fraud attempts. The latest of Sumsub’s Identity ...

Credit freezes have been free at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion since 2018. They are built to block one of the most common forms of identity fraud: new credit applications opened in your name. But ...

Entrust and Google partner to help highly regulated industries strengthen defenses against fast‑growing, sophisticated fraud while improving onboarding efficiency. The collaboration combines Entrust ...

The FBI has just released its latest annual internet crime report, and the numbers are staggering: Americans filed 1,008,597 complaints with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) last year, with ...

More than 220,000 fraud-risk cases were recorded to the UK National Fraud Database (NFD) in the first six months of 2026, with identity fraud accounting for 59%.