Report by Recorded Future
2025 Identity Threat Landscape Report
6 FINDINGSPublished Mar 16, 2026
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Each compromised device yielded an average of 87 stolen credentials.
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90% more credentials were identified in the last three months of 2025 than in the first three months
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Over half of all credentials (53%) were indexed within one week of exfiltration, and 36.4% within 24 hours.
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276 million of the credentials indexed in 2025 included active session cookies.
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50% more credentials were identified in the second half of 2025 than in the first half of the year.
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Of the 7 million credentials indexed with identifiable authorization URLs, 63.2% were tied to authentication systems.
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