In plain English
A sign-in can fail when the account or system cannot confirm the identity being claimed. This status covers one or more such unsuccessful tries.
In context
Here, it reports repeated unsuccessful sign-in tries where the claimed identity could not be verified.
- Situation
- Responding to phishing, suspicious activity, fraud, and compromise alerts
- What it communicates
- reports repeated unsuccessful login tries.
Meaning limits
By itself, the term does not say why the identity could not be verified or what happened after those attempts.
Examples
“The account history showed three failed sign-in attempts made in Leo's name.”
“After the call, staff reviewed the failed sign-in attempts from that morning under the same name.”