In 1998, the U.S. Congress made identity theft a federal offense. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday that a man could not stand convicted of identity theft for using the "personal identifying information" of a nonprofit entity, rather than a human being.

While an average of 15 million Americans a year become victims of identity theft, there's an offshoot branch of this type of white-collar crime that's less talked about: medical identity theft.

As head of the Identity Theft Council, he worked with law enforcement agencies across the country and around the world, counseled thousands of victims of fraud, and interviewed professional ...

Ed Landing, a retired state geologist and a victim of identity theft, looks over documents he's put ... [+] together as he tries to get back his stolen IRS federal tax return refund (Photo by John ...