According to an article at Forbes, identity theft and related fraud were up considerably in 2009 with 11.2 million victims for an estimated cost of $54 billion U.S. dollars. In 2008, just under 10 ...

Identity thieves stole an estimated $5.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service last year, helped by the fact that the agency lacked timely information to detect fraudulent filings, according ...

Identity theft is costing Uncle Sam far more than the Internal Revenue Service has reported, according to a new federal study. Skip to Main Content. Dow Jones, a News Corp company About WSJ.

The number of Americans ensnared by identity theft is on the rise, but victims are striking back more quickly and limiting how much is stolen. In 2008, the number of identity theft cases jumped 22 ...

As the number of identity theft victims continues to mount, so has the amount of data and information related to such events -- and the time and resources devoted to better understanding, analyzing ...

The headlines are filled with stories of millions of people falling victim to identity theft. In the past six years, identity thieves have stolen over $107 billion in the U.S., according to a 2017 ...

Identity theft cost the Internal Revenue Service more than $5 billion in tax year 2013, according to an analysis from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

TIGTA said it studied identity-theft characteristics and found 1.5 million fraudulent tax returns that were not detected by the IRS, which cost U.S. government coffers more than $5.2 billion.

Identity theft victims in the United States last year accounted for roughly seven percent of the country’s adult population, a new government report found. The Department of Justice’s Bureau ...