Exposed: Identity Risk, the Dark Web and the Score that Changes the Game

Download Experian’s 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast to explore five fraud trends expected to have the biggest impact on businesses and consumers in the coming year, including: 

• Agentic AI and machine-to-machine fraud 
• Deepfake-driven employment fraud 
• Smart home device exploitation 
• Website cloning and emotionally intelligent fraud bots

Improve your credit risk decisions with advanced approaches to validating and optimizing decision trees. Learn how stronger models drive smarter, more consistent outcomes across your portfolio.

• Enhance model accuracy
• Strengthen underwriting and collections
• Improve decision speed and consistency
• Align data science and risk teams

Consumers expect e-commerce experiences to be seamless and secure but, as fraud threats evolve, merchants are struggling to keep pace — and consumers are losing trust in merchants. Drawing on this year’s U.S. identity and fraud insights, this report explores the key factors contributing to the e-commerce trust gap. 

You’ll learn:

• What’s driving consumer concerns in e-commerce.
• Consumers’ preferred security methods for seamless, safe transactions
• Actionable recommendations to enhance merchants’ fraud stacks

The scale of global cyberattacks continues to rise, and 2026 is poised to be the year of AI in cybersecurity.

In our 13th annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, we share our top predictions for the year ahead, including:

• The rise of synthetic identities built from stolen data
• AI overtaking human error as the top cause of breaches
• The growing risk of AI and quantum computing cyberattacks
• Emerging threats like mutating malware, brain hacking and a shrinking gender gap among hackers

Gain insight into the trends shaping the future of data security. Download the full forecast to prepare for what’s ahead.