Kevin Mitnick Testimony Before the House Financial Services Committee

This is the transcript of Kevin Mitnick’s April 2003 testimony before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, in which he addressed cybersecurity and social-engineering threats facing banks and other financial institutions.

Testifying as a security consultant rather than a defendant, Mitnick described how attackers exploit human trust rather than purely technical flaws to breach systems handling sensitive financial data.