"identity theft" news, interviews, and features

News about identity theft

• Scams cost Australians more than $100M a year

  Hacking alone has so far in 2019 caused $4.5 million in losses

• Australians lost $6 million to scams in 2019

  Scamwatch recorded more than 22,000 complaints so far in 2019

• Rise in children’s identities being sold on the dark web

  Information about teenagers being traded for as much as $3000

• No evidence of identity theft after PageUp data breach

  IDcare says information accessed is insufficient and likely to be used in other kinds of online scams

• FBI grabs a Most Wanted Cyber Fugitive

  The FBI this week said it had nabbed one of the agency's Cyber's Most Wanted outlaws -- John Gordon Baden – who is charged with ...

• Federal Justice Minister launches national identity theft support service

  IDcare offers a toll-free national anonymous telephone service

Features about identity theft

• Three years undercover with the identity thieves

  Keith Mularski talks about his role as administrator of online fraud site DarkMarket.