In testimony given to the House Committee on Financial Services, Assistant Director for the U.S. Secret Service’s Office of Investigations, Alvin T. Smith, revealed the extent of the Secret Service’s involvement in federal investigations into cybercrime.

Smith detailed how the Secret Service has infiltrated underground Web sites (including both hacker and cyberfraud sites) and bulletin boards. Most importantly, the Secret Service has been embedding agents and staff at almost all levels of the federal government: the Department of Homeland Security, FBI joint terrorism task force, the FBI's National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, the Treasury Department's Terrorist Finance and Financial Crime and Financial Crime Enforcement Network sections, the DEA's Special Operations Division, the Department of Justice's International Organized Crime Division, the CIA, EUROPOL, and INTERPOL.

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