{"id":15796,"date":"2025-11-18T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cbo-chief-says-no-further-evidence-of-cyber-intrusion-of-agency-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:32:22","slug":"cbo-chief-says-no-further-evidence-of-cyber-intrusion-of-agency-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cbo-chief-says-no-further-evidence-of-cyber-intrusion-of-agency-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"CBO chief says \u2018no further evidence\u2019 of cyber intrusion of agency systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Phillip Swagel, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, told lawmakers at an oversight hearing Tuesday morning before the House Budget Committee that the \u201csophisticated cyberattack\u201d against his agency two weeks ago has been contained and there is currently no \u201cfurther evidence of unauthorized access to CBO email.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time he has spoken out publicly about the breach.<\/p>\n<p>Swagel said the investigation is \u201cextensive and ongoing\u201d as the agency receives assistance from both federal security partners and private sector security specialists.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that as more information becomes available about the nature of the attack \u2014 including \u201cthe threat actor\u2019s activities\u201d and what can be done to strengthen CBO\u2019s systems \u2014 he will provide lawmakers updates \u201cin a closed-door setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He warned that sharing some things during a public hearing \u201cmight hinder remediation or investigation\u201d but insisted that CBO is now \u201coperating as normal \u2026 without interruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In advance of the hearing, House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington praised the CBO\u2019s handling of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey notified everybody, and all hands were on deck to address it, remediate it, and make sure that no further information was breached,\u201d the Texas Republican said in an interview Monday night. \u201cI thought they handled that responsibly and there was a great sense of urgency and concern, which is what I would expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Swagel, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, told lawmakers at an oversight hearing Tuesday morning before the House Budget Committee that the \u201csophisticated cyberattack\u201d against his agency two weeks ago has been contained and there is currently no \u201cfurther evidence of unauthorized access to CBO email.\u201d It&#8217;s the first time he has [&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-15796","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\/15796","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=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}