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Bryan Lewis

President & Chief Executive Officer, Intellicheck, Inc.

Search every verified Bryan Lewis interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Bryan Lewis, President and Chief Executive Officer of Intellicheck, appeared on FreightWaves Today on July 6, 2026, to discuss the rise in identity theft and its implications for industries such as freight and finance. During the interview, Lewis said that stealing an identity is "amazingly easy" and that most people have had their information exposed in data breaches, which criminals then use to commit crimes such as opening credit cards in victims' names or impersonating drivers to steal trailers. He cited an average loss of around $300,000 per trailer theft and stated that cargo theft runs about $35 billion annually. Lewis also noted that a new identity can be purchased for roughly $50 on both the surface web and the dark web, and he referenced the UnitedHealthcare hack from the prior year, saying that exposed personal information and photos of IDs allow fraudsters to create credentials that match DMV records. He added that the barcode on a driver's license, which contains state-specific data, is effectively unhackable and serves as a key verification point. Lewis also discussed the role of social engineering and artificial intelligence in amplifying fraud, saying that some of the largest hacks have resulted from individuals making mistakes while trying to cooperate. He observed that AI, combined with personal information shared on social media, enables scammers to increase their output from roughly 60 calls per hour to 6,000. He concluded the interview by advising vigilance, stating, "Be vigilant. That's all I can say."

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“Fifty bucks for someone's new identity — on both the surface web and the dark web. And the scary part is, if you look at the UnitedHealthcare hack from last year, not only was personal information on a lot of people exposed, they had photos of people's IDs too. If you go to these websites, you can plug in the driver's license number, the document discriminator, and every other piece of information. So even checking a”

“Look, I'll start this conversation off by saying I generally bum people out after they hear me talk, because the ability to steal your identity is amazingly easy — and that's what people do. We've all been hacked, we've all got our information out there. And then the bad guys use that to commit crime — whether it's going into a store and opening a credit card in someone's name, or pretending to be a driver and taking”

“We are operationally profitable. We will stay that way. We're 47 people. Gross profit margin of around 91%. We don't see that changing at all.”

“For about $20, I can buy your name, address, birth date, phone number, email, all that stuff. And then, I travel with less cuz I got stopped by the TSA too many times. I used to travel with a ton of fakes. Now I only travel with two, but the most expensive part about stealing your identity is getting this fake ID that people really can't tell apart.”

“To buy one of these fakes that is so good it's hard for law enforcement to look at them and see if they're real is going to be $40. So for basically $60, I become you and I can go shopping. I can open up bank accounts. I can walk into the bank and pretend to be you and withdraw all your money.”

“Look, I think it's a large issue and we're certainly seeing it with the current administration and what they're doing, you know, and going into companies and saying, are these people really valid and should they be working here? Then there's also a whole cottage industry out there of folks selling say their Uber license, their Door Dash license, their Go Puff license, whatever it is in the same way that people used t”

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