All news on the topic: Identity Theft

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.