identity fraud
2023 Fraud Trends to Know and Prevent
In 2022, the FBI received 800,944 reported complaints that exceeded $10.3 billion in fraud losses for businesses’ critical infrastructure and data. Not only is technology getting faster and more sophisticated, but so ...
Supreme Court: Does BIlling Fraud Violate Federal ID Theft Statutes?
Simple question: Is a user ID and password similar to an identification card like a driver’s license or a key? If I use your user ID and password to log into your ...
Supreme Court to Consider Identity Theft Case
William Dubin, a licensed psychologist in Austin, Texas, provided psychological services to a youth facility known as Williams House. As part of a kickback scheme with the head of Williams House, Dubin ...
Fintech Cybersecurity: How to Safely Integrate Products
The fintech industry is booming and seeing an incredible period of growth. You might assume that everything is rosy for the industry—but beyond the incredible rise of some of the most famous ...
Your Guide to the Latest Email Fraud and Identity Deception Trends
There’s a high chance that you or someone you know has been impacted by email fraud or identity theft. At the very least, you’ve likely received a variety of spam emails and ...
US Seizes SSNDOB Market, Which Sold PII of 24 Million People
The DOJ's takedown of SSNDOB is the latest in a series of seizures of illicit marketplaces, forums, and shops, which sometimes include the sale of personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to individuals in ...
Insurance Won’t Pay for Identity Fraud Losses
In January of 2018, Dr. Kenneth Bramlett, an orthopedic surgeon from Vestavia Hills, Alabama, decided to buy a bit more than a half-million dollars worth of gold coins. He provided his name, ...
Attacks Signal Coming Shift From ID Theft to ID Fraud
Security practitioners looking back on 2021 may see it as the year attackers shifted their focus from identity theft to identity fraud. That’s according to Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the ...
Report: 2020 Sees Spikes in Mobility, Fintech Fraud
Since the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic, an unprecedented number of both business and financial transactions have shifted online. And where money and information go, so do fraud and other crimes ...
Ex Tennessee University Employee Sentenced to Over 30 Months for Student Loan Fraud, Aggravated Identity Theft
A former admissions worker at Tennessee State University (TSU) was sentenced to more than 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to student loan fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft ...
