U.S. Congressman Don Bacon says Chinese spies hacked his e-mails

Nebraska Republican Congressman Don Bacon said late on Monday the FBI had warned him that his e-mails were hacked by Chinese spies, with both personal and campaign messages compromised. Bacon was told that the Chinese Communist Party had access to his accounts for about a month ending on June 16, he said on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The hack was the result of a "vulnerability in Microsoft software", he said, an apparent reference to the hacking campaign that Microsoft disclosed last month, which reportedly resulted in the theft of hundreds of thousands of e-mails from senior…