Identity fraud is rising in the United States, but the timing does not always line up with the breach behind it. Consumers lost $27.3 billion to traditional identity fraud in 2025, according to ...

This content has been created by the Finextra editorial team with inputs from subject matter experts at the funding sponsor. How should financial organisations rethink signals, decisions, and system ...

Duplicate identity fraud attempts more than doubled in 2025 as criminal networks increasingly reused stolen or fabricated identity data to bypass digital verification systems, according to a new ...

Retailers lost an estimated $115 billion to ecommerce fraud in 2024, and ineffective identity verification remains one of the biggest vulnerabilities they must address entering 2026. Fraudsters are ...

For years, identity fraud was treated as a document problem. Forged passports, stolen IDs, and compromised credentials defined the threat landscape, and verification controls were built to stop these ...

Fraud prevention and user experience have long been treated as opposing forces: tighten security, and you risk alienating legitimate customers; loosen it, and you open the door to account takeovers, ...

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), its Consumer Sentinel Network received almost 6.5 million reports in 2024 — 40% of which were for fraud and 18% were for identity theft. Indeed, ...

Credit freezes have been free at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion since 2018. They are built to block one of the most common forms of identity fraud: new credit applications opened in your name. But ...