U.S. House lawmaker Rep. Don Bacon said the FBI warned him that China-backed hackers who used a stolen Microsoft key to raid the email accounts of senior U.S. government officials also accessed his email accounts. In a tweet, the Republican congressman from Nebraska said the FBI notified him on Monday that the Chinese government “hacked into my personal and campaign emails from May 15th… Read more »

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Tuesday that he was the victim of a hacking attack by Chinese spies after hackers reportedly also managed to read emails belonging to State Department employees. “I thank the FBI for notifying me that the CCP hacked into my personal and campaign emails from May 15th to June 16th of this year,” Bacon wrote Monday on X, the social media platform… Read more »

Nebraska Republican Congressman Don Bacon says that the Chinese Communist Party hacked his emails earlier this year. On social media Monday, Bacon alleged that his personal and campaign emails were hacked from May 15 to June 16. “The CCP hackers utilized a vulnerability in the Microsoft software, and this was not due to 'user error,'” Bacon wrote on social media. Read more here. Read more »

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Rep. Don Bacon says the FBI notified him that a portion of his personal and campaign emails were hacked by the Communist Party of China for about a month. Congressman Bacon posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, about the development on Monday afternoon, noting that the Chinese Communist Party hackers had access to emails between May 15 and… Read more »

WashingtonCNN —  Suspected Chinese hackers breached the personal and campaign email accounts of a Republican congressman who has been critical of the Chinese government, the lawmaker said in a social media post on Monday.  Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska is the first known lawmaker to have their email account hacked in an alleged Chinese espionage campaign. The hackers also… Read more »

WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Representative Don Bacon late on Monday said the FBI had warned him that his emails had been hacked by Chinese spies, with both personal and campaign messages compromised. Bacon was told the Chinese Communist Party had access to his accounts for about a month ending on June 16, he said on X, the social media platform formerly known as… Read more »

The suspected Chinese hackers who forged Microsoft customer identities to read the emails of State Department employees also obtained the personal and political emails of Rep. Don Bacon, a moderate Republican from Nebraska on the House Armed Services Committee. Read more here. Read more »

A much-needed possible solution to the ongoing challenge of student loan debt has surfaced, far surpassing President Joe Biden’s ideas on the topic. A member of Nebraska’s congressional delegation — Rep. Don Bacon of Omaha — is among members of the U.S. House of Representatives who have signed on to House Resolution 4144. Known as the Federal Assistance to Initiate Repayment (FAIR) Act,… Read more »

WASHINGTON: A bipartisan group of US lawmakers called on FIFA to recognise the exiled Afghanistan women's soccer team, in a letter sent to the sport's international governing body on Friday (Aug 11). The team has been playing in exile in Australia since the Taliban took control of the Afghan government in August 2021, causing many prominent women to flee the country for fear of… Read more »

OMAHA – The Common Ground Committee, a nonprofit group that scores members of Congress and state governors on bipartisan behavior, but not on their voting records, weighed in this month on Nebraska’s all-GOP slate of top elected officials.  Common Ground measures legislators on such things as the number of bipartisan bills they co-sponsor, their discussions of policy and opponents,… Read more »