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Account Recovery Abuse
Exploiting password-reset or support flows to take over accounts without the real owner’s credentials.
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Definitions for digital identity, people search, impersonation, synthetic identity, and public-record concepts.
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Account Recovery Risk
Account recovery risk is the chance that reset flows become the easiest path for attackers to take over accounts.
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Account Takeover Insurance Claim
An account takeover insurance claim seeks coverage after unauthorized account access causes financial loss.
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Address History
A timeline of residential or mailing addresses associated with a person over time.
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Alias
An alternate name, username, or identity label used by a person in addition to a primary legal name.
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Audio Deepfake
An audio deepfake clones or synthesizes a voice to impersonate someone in calls, voicemails, or videos.
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Authenticator Assurance Level
An authenticator assurance level describes the strength of the login method protecting an account.
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Background Check
A Background Check is a formal review of a person’s history—often criminal, employment, or credential records—under applicable legal rules.
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Biometric Template
A biometric template is a stored mathematical representation of a biometric trait used for matching.
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Court Record
Documents and dockets from legal proceedings, including civil, criminal, and administrative cases.
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Criminal Record
Official history of criminal charges, convictions, or related justice-system events associated with a person.
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Deepfake Identity Fraud
Deepfake identity fraud uses synthetic face or voice media to defeat verification or impersonate a person.
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Deepfake Identity Theft
Using AI-generated likenesses or voices to impersonate someone for access, fraud, or reputation harm.
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Digital Footprint Score
A summary measure of how large, visible, or sensitive a person’s online presence and data trail appear.
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Digital Identity Protection
Services and practices that monitor and reduce exposure of personal identity details online.
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Document Liveness
Document liveness checks whether an ID is physically present and not just a flat photo of a document.
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Employment Verification
Confirming a person’s job title, employer, or employment dates through records or authorized checks.
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Entity Match
Linking records that appear to describe the same entity—person, company, or other object—across datasets.
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Exposure Score
A metric estimating how widely a person’s personal data appears across brokers, leaks, or public sources.
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Face Match Confidence
Face match confidence is a system’s estimated likelihood that two facial images belong to the same person.
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Face Swap Deepfake
Synthetic video that replaces one person’s face with another to impersonate or fabricate events.
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Federation
Identity federation lets users sign in across services using a trusted identity provider.
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Identity Assurance Level
An identity assurance level describes how strongly a claimed identity has been proofed and bound.
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Identity Binding
Identity binding links an authenticator or account to a verified identity so later logins map to the same person.
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Identity Confidence
Identity confidence is how sure you can be that online identifiers refer to the intended real-world person or organization.
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Identity Graph
A map linking emails, devices, accounts, and profiles that ad tech and brokers use to recognize people.
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Identity Match
A determination that two identity profiles or data points likely refer to the same person.
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Identity Misattribution
Identity Misattribution is incorrectly linking evidence, accounts, or actions to the wrong person or entity.
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Identity Proofing
Identity proofing gathers and validates evidence that a claimed identity belongs to a real person at a stated assurance level.
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Identity Risk
The estimated likelihood that an identity is stolen, synthetic, mismatched, or otherwise unreliable.
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Knowledge-Based Authentication
Knowledge-based authentication asks personal questions that attackers may answer using breached or brokered data.
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KYC Document Fraud
Using forged or stolen identity documents to pass know-your-customer checks.
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Online Impersonation
Online Impersonation is pretending to be another person or brand online to deceive targets, often for fraud or reputational harm.
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People Search
People Search is the process of looking up information about a person using public records, web sources, or specialized search tools.
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People Search Site
A commercial directory that aggregates public and brokered personal data for lookup—often opt-out based.
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Presentation Attack
A presentation attack spoofs biometrics—such as photos or masks—to defeat facial or fingerprint checks.
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Professional License
A regulatory authorization allowing someone to practice a licensed occupation, often searchable in public registries.
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Profile Cloning
Profile cloning copies a person’s photos and details to create an impersonating social account.
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Public Records
Public records are government-held documents or data that are generally available to the public under applicable law.
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Public Records Search
Lookup of government and court filings that may reveal addresses, licenses, liens, or case history.
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Reverse Email Lookup
A reverse email lookup searches for accounts, breaches, and public traces linked to an email address.
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Reverse Phone Lookup
A reverse phone lookup searches databases and public sources to find information associated with a phone number.
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Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On is a glossary term used when people evaluate identity and people search.
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Social Media Impersonation
Fake profiles that copy a real person or brand to scam followers or damage reputation.
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Username Search
Looking up a handle across sites and services to map related profiles and digital footprint.
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Username Squatting
Username squatting registers handles to impersonate brands or people or to resell identity-like names.
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