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The average identity fraud victim lost about $1,517 in 2025, calculated from Javelin Strategy & Research's disclosed $27.3 billion in total losses across 18 million victims. See how that compares to the US Department of Justice's $1,160 mean, $200 median, and the FBI's $8,146 average per identity theft complaint.
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18 million Americans were identity fraud victims in 2025, losing a combined $27.3 billion, according to Javelin Strategy & Research's 2026 Identity Fraud Study published April 2026. See how that compares to the FTC's 1.1 million annual complaints and the government's own 23.9 million household-survey count.
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More than 17.7 billion accounts have appeared in a data breach, per Have I Been Pwned's live tracker checked in July 2026, more than double the world's population. See how many people the Identity Theft Resource Center, Verizon, and named breaches like Equifax and Yahoo actually affected.
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Data broker breaches have cost US consumers more than 20.8 billion dollars in identity theft losses, according to a Joint Economic Committee report published February 2026. See how many data brokers actually exist, what states require them to register, and how much of your data they hold.
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