US: A 40-year-old St Louis woman has spent months trying to convince credit reporting agencies that she’s alive.

ENGLAND: A holidaymaker ran up a phone bill of over £2,600 (€3,146) after downloading a Neil Diamond album while abroad.

The three major US credit bureaus say hackers who have posted credit reports on celebrities and government officials in recent days did not breach secure databases but relied on personal information they collected elsewhere on the public figures.

The LexisNexis online information service told 32,000 people last night that their personal information may have been improperly accessed by former customers in a credit card fraud scheme that postal officials said had hit hundreds.

People who use internet networking sites could be putting themselves at risk of becoming victims of identity theft, a credit information group warned today.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin today welcomed plans by Equifax Inc to expand its Irish operation in Wexford.

The US company Equifax is to create 160 jobs as part of an expansion of its operations in Wexford.

Bomb disposal experts have been called to Wexford to deal with a suspicious device found in an English-owned business premises this morning.