Digital Identity Tracker Archives

DIGITAL IDENTITY

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DECEMER 2018

$17.91B

Total revenue generated by the image recognition market last year

NOVEMBER 2018

85%

Estimated share of cybercrimes that go unreported

OCTOBER 2018

85%

share of American consumers who are more likely to visit websites that have a digital identity “seal of approval”

SEPTEMBER 2018

150B

number of consumer records projected to be available on the dark web by 2023

AUGUST 2018

58%

increase in fraud attempts targeting call centers last year

JULY 2018

58%

increase in fraud attempts targeting call centers last year

JUNE 2018

30%

year-over-year increase in European cyberattacks as of Q1 2018

MAY 2018

174,523

number of identity fraud cases reported in 2017

APRIL 2018

90%

projected share of businesses that will use biometric authentication by 2020

MARCH 2018

10.5M

number of data records lost or stolen per day in first half of 2017

FEBRUARY 2018

67%

of online gamblers who say a platform’s ability to positively ID them is as important as privacy and security from hackers.

JANUARY 2018

37%

share of consumers who are enrolled in an identity theft protection service

DECEMBER 2017

14%

portion of total transactions in the Asia Pacific region that were fraudulent, the most of any global region

NOVEMBER 2017

90%

of consumers say they are not confident in IoT security

OCTOBER 2017

150%

rise in cyberattacks
in the U.K. since 2015

SEPTEMBER 2017

75%

of Saudi Arabians who
believe biometrics are more secure
than usernames and passwords.

AUGUST 2017

44%

of Americans cite identity theft and banking fraud as top crime concerns.

JULY 2017

$1.4B

was lost by victims of online fraud in 2016.

JUNE 2017

62%

of firms are underprepared for the mounting nonpayment fraud threat.

May 2017

35%

the U.S. saw a 35 percent increase in global attack volumes last year.

April 2017

4.8M

job seekers were asked to put a fraud alert on their credit reports after a recent data breach.

March 2017

1B

Yahoo account details stolen in massive breach are still for sale online.

February 2017

77%

of consumers are worried about losing money to fraud.

January 2017

40%

attack rates rose by 40 percent in Asia in 2016, with China seeing the most attacks of any country in the region.

december 2016

60%

card-not-present fraud accounts for more than 60 percent of fraud in Europe.

november 2016

$100B

IDC Spending Guide predicts total revenue for the industry will top $100 billion by 2020.

october 2016

$70M

ant financial purchases EyeVerify for $70 million.

September 2016

$15M

Jumio raises $15 million in financing round.

AUGUST 2016

12

CardinalCommerce announces 12 new patents.

JULY 2016

70%

a study from SecureAuth Corporation found that over 70 percent of British internet users would rather enhance internet speed over digital security.

june 2016

52%

of consumers said they would prefer biometrics and “modern authentication methods.

may 2016

$360M

Experian, a global information services provider, announced that it had purchased the CSIdentity Corporation for a sum of $360 million.

april 2016

67%

of branded credit cards now contain EMV chips.

march 2016

80-100%

percentage online fraud increased in the 3-year period following the adoption of EMV in Australia, Canada and the U.K.

FEBRUARY 2016

16B

mobile biometric payments expected to be made in 2016.

JANUARY 2016

120M

customers using mobile biometrics on a daily basis for their financial transactions.

DECEMBER 2015

60M

bank operating margins that could be overtaken by startups in the next decade.

SEPTEMBER 2015

80M

people at risk in the 2015 security breech of Anthem.

AUGUST 2015

$36B

hardware encryption market will reach $36 billion in 2015.

JULY 2015

41%

of health care records aren’t encrypted in any way, making them an easy target for the fraudsters.

JUNE 2015

70M

number of private customer accounts compromised in 2013.

MAY 2015

140

number of countries it’s international network serves.

APRIL 2015

$40B

in losses from unauthorized employee use of computers in 2014.

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