Sec Napolitano: US financial institutions 'actively under attack' by hackers

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that some of the largest U.S. financial institutions "are actively under attack" from cyber hackers.

While Sec Napolitano sounded the alarm about the attacks at a cybersecurity event hosted by The Washington Post, she declined to provide any details about them. "Right now, financial institutions are actively under attack. We know that. I'm not giving you any classified information," she said. "I will say this has involved some of our nation's largest institutions. We've also had our stock exchanges attacked over the last [few] years, so we know ... there are vulnerabilities. We're working with them on that." When asked by Post editor Mary Jordan about whether hackers are stealing information or money from banks, Sec Napolitano answered "yes" and then quickly added, "I really don't want to go into that per se." "All I want to say is that there are active matters going on with financial institutions," she said.