EAU CLAIRE — The city of Eau Claire identified and stopped an outside party last week from using the city’s online payment portal to test stolen credit card numbers. “What happened was that scammers ...

Imagine receiving a notification about suspicious charges on a credit card you haven’t even received yet. How could that happen? While it sounds surprising and unsettling, it's increasingly common due ...

A credit card dump occurs when a criminal steals a credit card number. This type of crime has existed for decades, but it has ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn algorithm, named after IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn, who patented it in ...

Credit card fraud could be just the start of your problems. Luckily, there are steps you can take to limit the damage. Holly Johnson is a credit card expert and writer who covers rewards and loyalty ...