According to Javelin’s 2020 Identity Fraud Report, financial institutions’ methods to identify and respond to fraud are no match for criminals’ high-tech schemes to hijack consumer accounts. Fraud losses grew 13 percent in 2019 to $16.9 billion even as instances of fraud fell from 14.4 million in 2018 to 13 million in 2019, which resulted in consumers facing $3.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs last year as criminals shifted their focus from card fraud to opening and taking over accounts.
PerimeterX researchers are finding similar attacks in related industries.
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