Congressional budget office had a cyber ‘security incident’ the washington post reported the budget office may have been hacked by a foreign actor. The congressional budget office formulates economic projections for lawmakers, and every bill taken up in congress gets a cbo “score” of how much it would add to the national debt. A federal agency that supplies budget and economic information to congress has suffered a cybersecurity incident, reportedly at the hands of a suspected foreign party A spokesperson for the congressional budget office (cbo) acknowledged the incident thursday after the washington post reported that. The us congressional budget office has confirmed it was targeted in a cybersecurity incident it suspects can be attributed to a foreign hacker. The congressional budget office confirmed thursday that it had been hacked
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