In 2022, there was over a 30 percent increase in the human-initiated attacks rate in the financial services sector. Additionally, the e-commerce sector saw a 29 percent increase in human-initiated attacks rate. Overall, there was a 20 percent spike in human-initiated attacks.
Year-on-year change in human initiated attacks worldwide in 2022, by sector
based on source's characteristics; wider industry metrics may vary
Supplementary notes
Attacks in the Digital Identity Network are split by human-initiated attacks, which typically return full digital identity profiling data relating to individual events, and high velocity automated bot attacks.
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