Identity Theft Protection

Personal data 'scraped' from 700 million LinkedIn user profiles is being sold online. Even though the data is theoretically public, it's useful for spammers, stalkers and phishers.

Carnival, the world's largest cruise-ship operator, said it had been hit by its second data breach in the past 18 months.

Intuit has sent notifications to TurboTax customers that their accounts may have been hacked due to password reuse.

Volkswagen of America said 3.3 million prospective and actual Audi customers had sensitive data exposed or stolen.

You should never share your birthday online, because doing so puts you at greater risk of identity theft and other kinds of cybercrime.

T-Mobile may have suffered a serious data breach, judging from a letter it recently sent to a number of affected customers.

A novel phishing attempt occurring on LinkedIn tricks users into giving up their passwords to see a shared document.

There are big privacy risks in submitting your DNA to ancestry-testing companies, experts say.

About 3.2 billion sets of stolen usernames and passwords were put up for grabs in an online hacking forum, but almost all the data is years old.

More than 470,000 accounts of both sex workers and customers are exposed in a data breach of an escort-review site.