Fraud alerts and credit freezes help protect you from identity theft, either by alerting creditors to take extra steps to verify your identity or by hiding your credit report from potential creditors.

Keeping your personal information safe can feel like a futile battle. Even if you do everything right, a data breach could leak your information, and in turn allow criminals to buy it on the dark web ...

Americans will soon have the right to freeze their credit files free of charge. On May 24, President Donald Trump signed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, which has ...