How UIID keeps your identity out of the next major data breach

Worth spelling out clearly, because it's the whole reason UIID was built this way.

The scale of the problem right now. In the United States alone, 2025 set an all-time record for the number of separate data-breach events — over 3,300 of them. Globally, the average cost of a data breach hit a fresh record in 2026, and roughly six in ten breaches still trace back to stolen credentials or phishing.

Why this keeps happening. Almost every one of those breaches involves the same target: a central database holding millions of passwords, session tokens or account records in one place. It's a single point of failure by design — steal the database once, and you have everyone.

What UIID removes from that equation. Your credential is device-based and biometric-secured, held on your own hardware rather than in a company's database. Because identities live on user devices instead of a central server, there is no password honeypot to breach in the first place — not by us, and not by an attacker who compromises us. Everyday sign-ins run through anonymous aliases, so even a service you use regularly can't be cross-referenced against your activity elsewhere.

What this doesn't do. It doesn't make you invincible — a compromised device is still a real risk, which is exactly why backup codes, a second sign-in route and reviewing connected apps matter. But it removes the one failure mode responsible for the overwhelming majority of today's breach headlines: the leaked central database.

Create your identity at uiid.me — thirty seconds, and there's nothing sitting on our servers that could be taken from you.