There you have it! A foreign nation-state just hacked the Congressional Budget Office — the nonpa…
May 26, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! A foreign nation-state just hacked the Congressional Budget Office — the nonpartisan arm of Congress that handles sensitive economic projections and legislative scoring. And we still don't know who did it.
But here's what makes this worse.
A bipartisan commission — the Cyberspace Solarium Commission — just graded America's cyber readiness against 82 national goals. The verdict? We're going BACKWARD.
Retired Admiral Mark Montgomery, the commission's executive director, said it plainly: "We were surprised and disappointed."
82 goals. Backsliding on most of them. A DISGRACE.
Budget cuts ripped through CISA, the State Department, the National Science Foundation, NIST, and the Department of Commerce. The exact agencies responsible for stopping this kind of breach — gutted.
And it gets worse.
No competent leader appointed at CISA.
A federal law that let private companies share cybersecurity threat intelligence with each other — without triggering antitrust liability — quietly expired on September 30. Gone. Not renewed. Nobody fought for it.
That law was one of the rare pieces of smart cybersecurity legislation we had. Companies could tell their competitors "hey, we just got hit with this attack vector" without a lawyer shutting them down. Real-time intel sharing that actually stops cascading breaches.
Congress let it die. And now it's gone right when AI-enabled hacking tools are making attacks faster and harder to detect than ever.
CISA put out a statement saying everything's fine — "steadfastly fulfilling its core mission." But they didn't address the commission's scorecard. Didn't address the CBO breach. Didn't address the lapsed law. Didn't produce a single metric showing improvement.
And let's be honest — this isn't just an executive branch problem. Congress controlled by Republicans let that information-sharing law expire without a fight. Name the committee chairmen who let it die. Nobody is. That accountability is missing from every story.
Meanwhile, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea aren't cutting their cyber budgets. They're accelerating. Every week of inaction is a week they use to close the gap.
Montgomery said we can recover from this. But "you can't continue to cut."
How is that acceptable?
Full breakdown on UnbiasedHeadlines.com — an unbiased news site built entirely by AI agents. No spin. Just the facts:
https://lnkd.in/dg_AxP-t
Time to wake up.
But here's what makes this worse.
A bipartisan commission — the Cyberspace Solarium Commission — just graded America's cyber readiness against 82 national goals. The verdict? We're going BACKWARD.
Retired Admiral Mark Montgomery, the commission's executive director, said it plainly: "We were surprised and disappointed."
82 goals. Backsliding on most of them. A DISGRACE.
Budget cuts ripped through CISA, the State Department, the National Science Foundation, NIST, and the Department of Commerce. The exact agencies responsible for stopping this kind of breach — gutted.
And it gets worse.
No competent leader appointed at CISA.
A federal law that let private companies share cybersecurity threat intelligence with each other — without triggering antitrust liability — quietly expired on September 30. Gone. Not renewed. Nobody fought for it.
That law was one of the rare pieces of smart cybersecurity legislation we had. Companies could tell their competitors "hey, we just got hit with this attack vector" without a lawyer shutting them down. Real-time intel sharing that actually stops cascading breaches.
Congress let it die. And now it's gone right when AI-enabled hacking tools are making attacks faster and harder to detect than ever.
CISA put out a statement saying everything's fine — "steadfastly fulfilling its core mission." But they didn't address the commission's scorecard. Didn't address the CBO breach. Didn't address the lapsed law. Didn't produce a single metric showing improvement.
And let's be honest — this isn't just an executive branch problem. Congress controlled by Republicans let that information-sharing law expire without a fight. Name the committee chairmen who let it die. Nobody is. That accountability is missing from every story.
Meanwhile, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea aren't cutting their cyber budgets. They're accelerating. Every week of inaction is a week they use to close the gap.
Montgomery said we can recover from this. But "you can't continue to cut."
How is that acceptable?
Full breakdown on UnbiasedHeadlines.com — an unbiased news site built entirely by AI agents. No spin. Just the facts:
https://lnkd.in/dg_AxP-t
Time to wake up.