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Child Identity Theft: 2026 Back-to-School Guide
Every school registration form your family fills out this month asks for the same sensitive line: your child's Social Security number. Add in sports league sign-ups, dentist intake forms, and after-school program paperwork. It is easy to see why child identity theft...
Employee AI Use Policy: A 2026 Guide for Small Business
Your employees are almost certainly using AI tools at work right now, whether your company approved it or not. An employee AI use policy is the fastest way to get ahead of that reality. Most small businesses still don't have one. Verizon's 2026 Data Breach...
Your Tax Firm Is the Target: What the IRS’s Summer Security Campaign Means for Small Practices
On July 7, 2026, the IRS and its Security Summit partners launched a five week campaign called "Protect Your Clients; Protect Yourself." It targets tax professionals squarely, and it makes the case for identity theft protection for tax professionals plainly: small tax...
How to Avoid Summer Travel Scams in 2026
Summer travel scams cost Americans real money every year. The FTC's most recent Consumer Sentinel data shows travelers reported $274 million in losses tied to travel, vacation, and timeshare fraud. That covers more than 58,000 reports. Most scam victims never file a...
Q1 2026 Breach Report Recap
Constella Intelligence is one of the companies that powers many of the identity protection services operating in the U.S. today. Every quarter they publish a breach report drawn from their global monitoring network. Their Q1 2026 data breach report covers January...
Identity Theft Protection Employee Benefit: 2026 HR Guide
Last Updated: June 2026 | Reading time: ~9 minutes In March 2026, nearly 2.7 million employees and their dependents received breach notification letters from a company most of them had never heard of. Navia Benefit Solutions, a Washington-based benefits administrator...