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Congressional Budget Office hacked, China suspected in breach

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/politics/congressional-budget-office-hacked-china-suspected
9•Ozarkian•3mo ago

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Terr_•3mo ago
Oof. Cybersecurity staff have been getting fired left and right recently, and the people doing the firing (i.e. OMB director Russel Vought) have even been praising the budget-shutdown situation as giving them an extra excuse to do it.

It's not a reactive decision to the situation either: Vought is a major author of the "Project 2025" plan from the Heritage Foundation, they've been just waiting to gut government cybersecurity for years.