Equifax Inc. announced on Sept. 7 that hackers had busted into its computer system. This isn’t just some random corporation, even though most people probably do not recognize its name.
Identity theft via the Internet in Iowa is growing, keeping ahead of the pace at which we can stop it. This special IowaWatch/Simpson College journalism reporting project explains.
A week after Allyson Nielsen, 25, and her fiancé moved in August 2015 from their Chicago, Illinois, apartment to a new one about four blocks away, she found out she was a victim of identity theft – as if moving isn’t stressful enough.
