Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Now that the holiday shopping season is ending, it’s time to review your credit card purchases for possible fraud.

Barnes & Noble said criminals tampered with PIN pad devices at 63 stores to steal debit and credit card information.

Imagine the surprise one Floridian got when a device used to steal card data fell off an ATM right into his hands.

A security breach at a card processor may have put 10 million accounts in danger of card fraud.

Three people have been arrested as part of an investigation into allegations of credit card skimming at a local restaurant in New Port Richey, Fla. According to a press statement, the Pasco County sheriff’s office has charged a waitress at a Mugs ‘N Jugs with criminal use of personal identification information, and charged several of

Consumers who use credit cards may soon receive legitimate automated messages about suspicious-seeming activity, thanks — if that’s the right word —  to a new partnership between FICO and Adeptra. Together, the two companies have introduced an automated fraud detection and verification service that’s designed to flag and verify suspicious credit card transactions, and then contact