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In 2021 alone, the Federal Trade Commission received a record 1.4 million identity theft complaints. Identity theft has been the number one crime reported to the FTC, making up 25% of all filed complaints. Social engineering attacks are the most successful cybercrime in the world, responsible for 70% of breaches. Data breaches have become the rule rather than the exception in the U.S. In the US alone, 212 million users were affected by a data breach in 2021 alone. The average adult generates 2 megabytes of data per second, all stored in database.