Medical identity theft is on the rise and hasn’t shown signs of slowing down anytime soon, according to a new report released Thursday. Conducted by privacy and security research firm Ponemon ...

NEW YORK -- Medical identity theft is a crime on the rise. Nearly 2.5 million cases were reported in 2014, an increase of 20 percent from the year before. A stolen medical identity can ruin your ...

Medical identity theft has been escalating dramatically where cybercriminals have found an industry ill-prepared to adequately protect itself from the onslaught. This article will briefly discuss the ...

In 2014, nearly 9 million patient health records were breached in 164 reported incidents. By March 2015, that number had increased tenfold. In fact, it is estimated that one in three health records ...

2. A cluster of southeastern states emerged as a regional hotspot for medical identity theft. 3. Trends of aggressive debt collection as the result of medical identity theft also emerged, including ...

The recent and highly publicized Anthem health insurance breach has brought cybersecurity concerns to the forefront of the medical, hospital and insurance sphere. Potentially 80 million individual ...

Medical identity theft is the deadliest form of identity theft—and I say this without hyperbole or exaggeration. When financial gain is the general motivation for stealing medical information, ...

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An estimated 2.3 million adult Americans or their close family members became victims of medical identity theft in 2014 — a 22 percent rise in the dangerous type of fraud, according to a survey ...