Amid a government shutdown that has dragged on for more than five weeks, the United States Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday that it recently suffered a hack and moved to contain the breach. CBO provides nonpartisan financial and economic data to lawmakers, and The Washington Post data-offer-url=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/cbo-hack-congress-foreign/” class=”external-link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/cbo-hack-congress-foreign/"}” href=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/cbo-hack-congress-foreign/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>reported that the agency was infiltrated by a “suspected foreign actor.”
CBO spokesperson Caitlin Emma told WIRED in a statement that it has “implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to…
