Scores of people believed to have run a large-scale operation selling personal data are arrested in Beijing.

Americans are told to guard their Social Security numbers, but when they die, the government publishes that coveted information.

Your lost loved one's financial identity could come back to life in a most unsettling way -- 2.5 million deceased Americans' identities are misused every year, according to ID Analytics, an ID theft risk assessment company. The company's research arm compared the names, Social Security numbers and birthdays listed on applications for credit against the Social Security Administration's master file of deaths that came up with those numbers.

A supermarket-style coin-operated system for wheelchairs is being introduced at Stafford Hospital after the theft of some of them.

An elderly Spanish nun has become the first person to appear in court in connection with the alleged theft of newborn babies, mostly during the Franco era.