page_title: United States Secret Service
section_title: International expansion
hierarchical_section_title: United States Secret Service / History / 21st century / 2000s / International expansion
caption_attribution_description: English: Secret Service Cyber Intelligence Center (CIS)
context_page_description: The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security charged with conducting criminal investigations and protecting the nation's leaders and their families. Until 2003, the Secret Service was part of the Department of the Treasury, as the agency was founded in 1865 to combat the then-widespread counterfeiting of U.S. currency.
context_section_description: On July 6, 2009, the U.S. Secret Service expanded its fight on cybercrime by creating the first European Electronic Crime Task Force, based on the successful U.S. domestic model, through a memorandum of understanding with Italian police and postal officials. Over a year later, on August 9, 2010, the agency expanded its European involvement by creating its second overseas ECTF in the United Kingdom.
  Both task forces are said to concentrate on a wide range of "computer-based criminal activity," including:
  Identity theft
  Network intrusions
  Other computer-related crimes affecting financial and other critical infrastructures.
caption: Secret Service Cyber Intelligence Center (CIS)
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