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Less than a month after his associate was jailed for an identity theft scheme involving stolen mail and forged documents, the second man involved received his own prison term. This isn’t the first time James Donald Provost — who has a record of more than 200 convictions — has been…

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Police estimate that more than 100 people fell victim to a 32-year-old man’s alleged pattern of identity theft in Colorado Springs. Armando Gallegos allegedly manufactured checks using others’ account information and then used the checks at local businesses. He was arrested Aug. 23 in one of the five cases of…

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Almost 143 million Americans had their personal information exposed after a data breach from Equifax. That’s almost half the population and the chances of those affected being in Iowa and Illinois are very likely. During a presentation on what to do if you’ve been hacked at the Davenport Library, many…

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We’re all generally aware, in the abstract sense of lightning strikes or rabid bats, that identity thieves can hit us. It might happen, one day. But we’re sure the odds of it happening, like slipping in the bath tub, are on our side. Phil McGrane now knows that’s false security….

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A Dominican national living in Dorchester was sentenced to prison time Monday for his role in a stolen identity refused fraud scheme that scored hundreds of thousands of dollars in refunds, the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Junior Alberto Lopez, 32, was sentenced in federal court to 30 months in…

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A bipartisan pair of senators is pressing Equifax for details on how it plans to protect data on U.S. servicemembers caught up in a massive breach, underscoring fears of potential identity theft and financial fraud. Sens. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) wrote to the credit reporting firm on…

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According to the 2017 Identity Fraud Study* more than $107 billion was stolen from consumers over the past six years. The latest Cyber theft of more than 134 million personal information identifiers such as driver’s license numbers and social security numbers now makes this information useless for identifying individuals. With…

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When a man in Cape Cod stopped getting his mail for about a week, he decided to check out what was happening. Investigators soon learned the man’s mailbox was being used by someone else to ship what appeared to be stolen Fitbits. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the investigation led…

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PIEDMONT – Police are crediting an alert neighbor and license plate readers with helping them nab a Sacramento woman suspected of identity theft. Tatiana Tia, 20, was arrested about 9:30 a.m. Sept. 12 on Hardwick Avenue near Oakland Avenue. Officers were initially dispatched to the 1900 block of Oakland Avenue…

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In the wake of the Equifax data breach, which compromised the personal information of up to 143 million Americans — nearly half of the U.S. population, according to NBC News — many Americans are looking to prevent potential identity theft. The Equifax breach is just the latest in a string…

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Medical records are valued at 20 to 50 times more than financial identities on the black market. Medical identity theft is on the rise. Medical records are a hot target for hackers because, according to the FBI, medical identities are valued at 20 to 50 times more than financial identities…

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The Conway Police Department is seeking the public’s help to identify a woman who they say bought two cell phones using someone else’s identity. On Aug. 27, a woman bought two iPhone 7 pluses at the Verizon store on Dave Ward Drive using the ID of a woman from Philadelphia….

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