{"id":15350,"date":"2025-11-06T22:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congressional-budget-office-had-a-cyber-security-incident\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:16:40","slug":"congressional-budget-office-had-a-cyber-security-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congressional-budget-office-had-a-cyber-security-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Budget Office had a cyber \u2018security incident\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office identified a cyber \u201csecurity incident,\u201d a spokesperson for the office said Thursday, posing vulnerabilities for a key arm of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The CBO \u2014 a nonpartisan agency tasked with providing economic and budgetary information to Congress \u2014 said Thursday that officials had taken \u201cimmediate action to contain\u201d the breach as officials investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike other government agencies and private sector entities, CBO occasionally faces threats to its network and continually monitors to address those threats,\u201d CBO spokesperson Caitlin Emma said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/11\/06\/cbo-hack-congress-foreign\/\" target=\"_blank\">initially reported the breach<\/a> may have been perpetrated by a suspected foreign actor. Blue Light News has not independently confirmed the details of the breach.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Rules Committee, which has oversight responsibilities for CBO, was briefed on the intrusion, according to a person familiar with the hack who was granted anonymity to discuss the briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespersons for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the nation\u2019s key federal cyber defense agency, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the hack. Spokespersons for the FBI also did not immediately respond to a request for comment on if the agency is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p><i>Maggie Miller contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Budget Office identified a cyber \u201csecurity incident,\u201d a spokesperson for the office said Thursday, posing vulnerabilities for a key arm of Congress. The CBO \u2014 a nonpartisan agency tasked with providing economic and budgetary information to Congress \u2014 said Thursday that officials had taken \u201cimmediate action to contain\u201d the breach as officials investigate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}