All news on the topic: Identity Theft

An individual suspected of stealing the identity of several citizens to fraudulently obtain funds intended to modernise residential buildings under the Clean Air programme has been arrested while withdrawing money from an ATM.

Microsoft and Coinbase helped dismantle EvilTokens, an AI phishing service tied to more than 12,000 compromised inboxes worldwide.

Australian police have charged three accountants for allegedly helping an organized crime syndicate obtain tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent loans, bringing the total number of people charged in the probe to 33, New South Wales Police said on Thursday.

A postgrad biomedical student already jailed for stalking a judge will spend a further three years in prison for housing benefit fraud, after ripping off dozens of councils.

The ShipMonk leak tied thousands of crypto users to their delivery locations as violent crypto attacks and home invasions rise.

A 19-year-old woman whose images were used to create fake Tinder, TikTok and Instagram profiles leading men to believe she was their girlfriend is to be paid compensation.

A Russia-based criminal syndicate ran one of the largest Medicare frauds in American history out of a storefront in Brooklyn, billing the program more than $10.6 billion and collecting roughly $941 million before federal agents unraveled it.

A Vietnamese national pleaded guilty before a New York court to conspiracy to commit identity theft as part of a transnational scheme to launder $67 million using data stolen from U.S. citizens, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.

A Scottish man has pleaded guilty to plotting to hack into the computer systems of at least a dozen companies to steal at least eight million dollars (£5.9 million).

A UK crackdown targets Balkan gangsters who used fraudulent Bosnian documents—only weeks after Bosnian journalists exposed the extent of the identity theft scheme.

In comprehensive raids across 52 provinces, Turkish police seized $127 million in assets and detained 423 suspects as part of a cybercrime investigation targeting fraud, identity theft, money laundering, and child exploitation.