I’m a victim of identity theft. I wrote about it for the Los Angeles Times back in 2022, but I’ll summarize here: Someone stole my wallet out of my purse, and with just my driver’s license and ...

Whatever your unique transition, that core question remains: When your identity falls apart, how do you find yourself again? I prefer to think of it as “The Pivot”. It happens to all of us, sooner or ...

To protect your credit, immediately contact your bank and credit card issuer and place a fraud alert with one of the three ...

In an age where personal information is increasingly digitized and interconnected, identity theft has become a serious and widespread threat. After all, cybercriminals are constantly on the lookout ...

Your digital identity is the fingerprint you leave across the internet, a living map of who you are. Your digital identity is more than just your name or email; it stretches from your social media ...

As a new member of the Forbes Council community, there is probably something you should know about me. I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about identity. Your identity. My neighbor’s ...

While you might think identity theft would never happen to you, it's unfortunately an all-too-common, growing problem. In the first half of 2023 alone, there were about as many identity theft reports ...

Identity Guard notified me of my Social Security Number making it on the dark web before the AT&T breach became public. Sally Jackson Contributor Sally Jackson is a pseudonym for a freelance personal ...

When I was a child, my parents told me identity stories. My favorite was the story of my great-grandfather on my father’s side, who moved from a village in India to the city of Bombay, carrying ...

The effects of identity theft can be immediately, catastrophically obvious—or you may be compromised for years without knowing it. Identity theft is a real threat worth worrying about. Not only is ...

I will never forget how I wept when I was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I thought it changed who I was and how others would see me. It felt like a visible mark on me as an individual—something glaring ...