At least 4.4 million people have had their personal information stolen. I recommend you freeze your credit with all three credit bureaus. You should also enroll in an identity theft protection and ...

Freezing your credit is one of the best ways to block thieves from stealing your identity and opening fake accounts in your ...

Like millions of other people, I freaked out a little last week when I learned that my personal information "may have been impacted" by the Equifax breach. Thieves got the mother load of data, which ...

It used to be that you'd freeze your credit if you'd suffered identity theft or some other compromise of your personal information. But as data breaches have piled up, a pre-emptive credit freeze has ...

Late last month credit reporting giant TransUnion disclosed that hackers accessed a third-party application tied to its U.S. consumer support operations on July 28. The breach was discovered July 30 ...

The credit reporting company TransUnion holds our intimate financial details. Until recently, its customer service hotline also left an opening for impostors to potentially take over our private ...

Freeze first, panic never. A credit freeze sounds dramatic, almost like slamming a vault door shut. In reality, it stands as one of the simplest and most powerful tools available to protect financial ...

In 2024, Canadians lost a staggering $638 million to fraud, with identity, service and investment fraud accounting for most of those losses, according to recent data from the Canadian Anti-Fraud ...