Hackers nabbed emails between congressional staff and Library of Congress

Affected staff were notified Friday afternoon, according to an internal email. Capitol Hill communications with the Congressional Research Service frequently involve confidential legislative drafts or policies still in the brainstorming stage.

A foreign adversary successfully accessed the contents of email communications between congressional legislative staffers and staff in the Library of Congress’s Congressional Research Service in an elaborate hack that occurred between January and September of this year, according to a person familiar with the matter and an email obtained by Nextgov/FCW.

Committees in the House and Senate that oversee the Library’s funding and operations were notified of the matter only on Thursday, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid about the nature of the intrusion.

The number of emails accessed by the hackers is unknown at this time, added the person, but the incident is sounding alarms in Congress because ...