US Congressional Budget Office Hit By Suspected Foreign Cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com) 26
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirms it suffered a cybersecurity incident after a suspected foreign hacker breached its network, potentially exposing sensitive data. In a statement shared with BleepingComputer, CBO spokesperson Caitlin Emma confirmed the "security incident" and said the agency acted quickly to contain it. "The Congressional Budget Office has identified the security incident, has taken immediate action to contain it, and has implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency's systems going forward," Emma told BleepingComputer.
"The incident is being investigated and work for the Congress continues. Like other government agencies and private sector entities, CBO occasionally faces threats to its network and continually monitors to address those threats." The Washington Post first reported the breach, stating that officials discovered the hack in recent days and are now concerned that emails and exchanges between congressional offices and the CBO's analysts may have been exposed. While officials have reported told lawmakers they believe the intrusion was detected early, some congressional office have allegedly halted emails with the CBO out of security concerns.
"The incident is being investigated and work for the Congress continues. Like other government agencies and private sector entities, CBO occasionally faces threats to its network and continually monitors to address those threats." The Washington Post first reported the breach, stating that officials discovered the hack in recent days and are now concerned that emails and exchanges between congressional offices and the CBO's analysts may have been exposed. While officials have reported told lawmakers they believe the intrusion was detected early, some congressional office have allegedly halted emails with the CBO out of security concerns.
No big loss (Score:1)
Elon, erm, excuse me DOGE, has all the backups for safe keeping.
Shouldn't have cut the cybersecurity office (Score:5, Insightful)
That's what happens when you cut the cybersecurity office, fire half the people doing the work, and then put the rest on furlough because cybersecurity isn't essential.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1... [nytimes.com]
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/... [axios.com]
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Don't worry, as we speak they are drafting a talking point that will blame Hunter Biden's laptop.
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Naw. Somehow, this will be Obama or Hillary's fault.
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I'd call it AI trolling, but AI-written slop has a veneer of seeming to make sense.
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What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.
CBO predictions (Score:2)
Not having much hope that this is going to be fully resolved soon, given the long history of CBO estimates on the economy and tax revenue, where they always seem to overestimate the tax revenue collected in the future so that Congress can spend more than their means.
By the end of the day, both parties agree on more spending and more spending and, now, a decade in, that not having a budget lets everyone spend more without having to hear questions about increases in budget from votors (both parties).
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We'll never know (Score:2)
And I'm surprised no one has posted this, if CBO got hacked, a relatively non-secret kind of org, how many really secure agencies have had breaches with DOGE's rampant cuts.
We'll probably never know. When actual secret sites get hacked, they keep the fact secret.
Another worry is the fact that DOGE penetrated all the sites and vacuumed up data indiscriminately, so the adversaries only have to hack DOGE, who have already shown that they don't pay much attention to cybersecurity.
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-... [newsweek.com]
https://www.bankinfosecurity.c... [bankinfosecurity.com]
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fa... [harvard.edu]
https://thehill.com/homenews/s... [thehill.com]
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Why isn't the CBO fully transparent? (Score:1, Troll)
Do they have lots of secretive data manipulations for political purposes that they are trying to hide?
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So, you have access to all the same information the CBO has access to? There is stuff that should be public, but the actual work computers where people who put the data together shouldn't be open to the public due to potentially sensitive information that shouldn't be available to the public for privacy reasons.
Re:Why isn't the CBO fully transparent? (Score:4, Informative)
blue trane fishes for responses on this site, by posting outrageous questions, and then responding to replies not with substantive comments, but with more questions. I have learned not to take the bait.
Ignore him. He's not a good-faith interlocutor.
Re: Why isn't the CBO fully transparent? (Score:2)
What if it's trolling all the way down, and you just lack self-awareness?
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He's not a good-faith interlocutor.
Isn't that just a fancy way of saying he's a troll?
Well, I suppose it's a polite way of saying it. Which is appropriate, because despite how I feel about his posts, blue trane generally is polite.
Re: Why isn't the CBO fully transparent? (Score:2)
Is what you call "substantive" really just idiosyncratic verbiage based on arbitrary fickle mood affiliations in sore need of trolling to keep you honest?
Re: Why isn't the CBO fully transparent? (Score:2)
Is the real secret how unreliable (why wouldn't private companies lie to them?) and open to political interpretation all their data really is?
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Re: Why isn't the CBO fully transparent? (Score:2)
How many Trumps does it take to skew the data?
Is there any data actually there? (Score:1)