 But the Secret Service also has a long history in going after financial crimes, bank fraud, counterfeiting, credit card fraud, some cybersecurity-related things related to fraud. Forno says since there are more of those crimes nowadays, the costs of those investigations have been going up, along with the size of the Secret Service's budget. Thomas Hyslop used to work for the Secret Service and now teaches in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida.