The following are some interesting security factoids that point towards the benefit of a mobile 2FA (Over the Air or Wireless Public Key Infrastructure) federated identity model:
- The most commonly used password in the English speaking world is ‘123456’. Previously it was ‘password’
- An average UK internet user has five different username and password combinations that are used over an average of 25 different sites
- 4.5 billion compromised records, the size of the CyberVOR breach is the number of service compromised from each pair of compromised credentials
- 1.2 billion of the CyberVOR credentials are meant to be unique, belonging to over half a billion e-mail addresses
- In 2009 OpenID announced that there were over 1 billion OpenID enabled accounts (a number that has certainly increased) that can be used for federated authentication
- 60% of all cases of fraud perpetrated against individuals is personal data theft
- $12 billion: size of mobile identity infrastructure market by 2019
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