It takes the agency 20 months on average to process the claims, leading to “financial hardship for taxpayers” and significant interest paid by the IRS on delayed…

A bill from Reps. Pete Sessions and Bill Foster would task the Treasury secretary with doling out fraud prevention grants to states to develop digital IDs that…

Companies want to be your identity service providers and see the Social Security Administration as a test case for making verification more consistent and interoperable.

The tax-collection agency perceived as far back as September that the system could be a target but decided to keep it online.

A newly released report by the Government Accountability Office notes that OPM is providing coverage at a level that is “likely unnecessary” because “claims paid rarely exceed…

Stolen identities and easily deployable malware are among the items most commonly found for sale on the dark web, according to an as-yet unpublished new report by Virginia-based…

The IRS has been dealt another blow its fight against tax fraud, announcing Monday that its​ temporarily suspended the use of the Identity Protection PIN tool.

A recent report by the Congressional Research Service recommends placing more restrictions on the use of Social Security numbers because of a spike in identity theft involving…