Credit monitoring isn’t just about watching your credit score — it’s about protecting your financial identity in a world ...

While credit monitoring services don’t prevent fraud from showing up on your credit report or affecting your credit score, experts say they can help detect major changes to inform necessary action.

As of 2023, Federal Trade Commission data reported that consumers lost over $10 billion due to identity theft and fraud. And even if you’ve been lucky enough to evade identity theft thus far, just ...

Your credit score is an important part of your financial life. It determines whether you can borrow money and how much you pay when you do. Monitoring your score can help you fight fraud, correct ...

As technology evolves, fraudsters keep coming up with new ways to steal personal information from people including names, addresses, credit card details, Social Security numbers and even medical ...

It seems the Federal Trade Commission was a little too efficient at getting the word out about how consumers could claim up to $125 if they were affected by the 2017 Equifax data breach. The ...

A credit monitoring service can notify you when a credit application has been made in your name. Here are our favorites.