Intellicheck Releases Inaugural Identity Fraud Threat Report

Report Exposes Widespread Fraud Risks Threatening Massive Losses Across Industries

Published on Feb. 21, 2026

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Intellicheck, Inc., an industry-leading identity company, has released its inaugural 2026 Intellicheck North America Identity Verification Threat Report. The report provides a comprehensive, data-driven analysis of how the identity fraud landscape is evolving across financial services, retail, and other major industries, drawing on proprietary, anonymized data from around 100 million North American identity verification transactions conducted in 2025.

Why it matters

The report highlights the escalating pace of identity fraud, with Intellicheck detecting more than 200 invalid IDs every hour in 2025, each representing a potential fraud attempt. The financial impact is substantial, with consumers reporting $12.5 billion in fraud losses in 2024, much of it facilitated through identity fraud.

The details

Intellicheck's 2025 data shows that while 97.85% of IDs passed verification, 2.15% failed, equating to millions of potential fraud attempts annually. The failure rates varied dramatically by industry, with alcohol retail recording 15.1% and auto sales at 1.6%. In banking, the failure rate was 1.9% across tens of millions of verifications, posing significant risks. The report also found that AI-enabled tools are making counterfeit IDs nearly indistinguishable to the human eye, accelerating the threat.

  • In 2025 alone, Intellicheck detected more than 200 invalid IDs every hour.
  • Consumers reported $12.5 billion in fraud losses in 2024.

The players

Intellicheck, Inc.

An industry-leading identity company delivering proprietary on-demand digital and physical identity validation solutions.

Bryan Lewis

Intellicheck CEO.

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What they’re saying

“For organizations, identity fraud is no longer theoretical, it's an operational reality.”

— Bryan Lewis, CEO (Intellicheck)

What’s next

The full report is available for download on the Intellicheck website.

The takeaway

This report highlights the urgent need for organizations to deploy advanced, differentiated, and proven verification technologies to keep pace with the evolving tactics of bad actors and protect their customers from the growing threat of identity fraud.