This year, Kris Steele, a Web developer in Madison, Wis., who was planning to buy a car, decided to check his credit score. ...more

August 10, 2008

It is the largest case of identity theft in the country. More than 41 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen by an international ring that hacked into the computer networks of nine national retail chains, including Barnes & Noble, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax and TJX Cos. ...more

August 8, 2008

About 150,000 people nationwide have been affected by the theft of laptops with personal information about current and former employees of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. ...more

August 6, 2008

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson is urging consumers to take advantage of their free annual credit reports to deter identity theft. ...more

July 20, 2008

ChoicePoint, a 1997 spinoff of credit agency Equifax, is being acquired by the parent of LexisNexis in a cash deal worth $3.6 billion, a major premium for a company that weathered an embarrassing breach of its database, federal investigations and a stock-trading probe of its top two executives. ...more

February 22, 2008

Chances are you just finished dropping a boatload of money on holiday gifts. You probably paid for the bulk of your purchases with a debit or credit card, particularly if you did any of your shopping online. But what did you do to protect yourself against identity theft? ...more

December 30, 2007

ORLANDO - An Orlando jury has ordered Equifax to pay nearly $3 million in the case of a woman who says the company ruined her credit in an identity mix-up. ...more

December 4, 2007

Just as the holiday shopping rush begins, the three major credit bureaus have decided they will provide consumers with a powerful tool to protect themselves from identity theft. ...more

November 25, 2007

How do you know if someone shopping today is using a charge card with your name on it, leaving you with damaged credit and a big financial headache? You don't, but your best safeguard is to glance now and then at your total credit picture. ...more

November 23, 2007

Amid growing concern about identity theft, Experian has joined the nation's two other major credit bureaus in allowing consumers to freeze access to their credit files. ...more

October 5, 2007