Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor

The Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper, was hacked by a suspected foreign actor, according to an agency spokeswoman, potentially exposing the key financial research data Congress uses to craft legislation.

Officials discovered the incursion in recent days and now worry that communications between lawmakers’ offices and nonpartisan researchers could have been accessed by an adversary or one of its digital proxies, as well as internal email and office chat logs, according to four people familiar with the hack.

The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

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