98% of fraudulent hires have company credentials by the time they’re caught

Sep 18, 2026 - 07:45
98% of fraudulent hires have company credentials by the time they’re caught

A 90-day period between hiring and onboarding is creating a blind spot in enterprise identity security, according to HYPR’s State of HR Identity Fraud Detection report. “Adversaries no longer need to breach a network when they can pass a remote interview and receive authentic credentials directly from IT,” said Bojan Simic, CEO of HYPR. “Human intuition is not a security control. Sceptics might point to low reported numbers, but the lack of purpose-built verification technology … More

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