Sanders campaign suspended over accessing data

At that late hour, the Washington Post reported that the Democratic National Committee had barred the Sanders campaign from accessing its database of likely Democratic voters, after a Sanders’ staffer viewed confidential voter information assembled by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

According to the Washington Post, the DNC told the Sanders campaign that they will again be able to access the voter files after they destroy any data collected from the Clinton campaign’s list and explain why the staffer breached the system. On Friday, Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs told CNN that accessing the data was “unacceptable” and confirmed that Uretsky had been fired.

“Sadly, the DNC is relying on an incompetent vendor who on more than one occasion has dropped the firewall between the various Democratic candidates’ data”, Weaver said.

As a result of the breech, the Democratic National Committee suspended the Sanders campaign from having access to party voter data.

The Sanders campaign said that it had raised a red flag with the DNC “months ago”, telling the party that campaign data was made accessible to other presidential campaigns.

Which is why the DNC’s punishment over this data breach – which they themselves admit is their fault, as the buck stops with them as far as NGP VAN is concerned – is being interpreted by Sanders’s campaign and supporters as punitive and harsh.

“We knew there was a security breach in the data, and we were just trying to understand it and what was happening”, he said.

His comments appear to be part of Sanders’ increased efforts to counter Islamophobia by engaging with Muslims and promoting religious tolerance.

A Sanders’ spokesperson says that person was immediately fired.

But Uretsky told CNN that he and others had merely probed the system to try to discover the extent of their own data’s exposure.

In a presidential campaign shaping up to be the most expensive in history, with most of the prominent candidates being backed by big money and even bigger super PACs.

The consecutive endorsements-and subsequent positive press-provide the Sanders campaign needed momentum ahead of Saturday’s debate in New Hampshire, the state on which the campaign’s hope rests.

“This bug was a brief isolated issue”, Trevelyan said.

Miranda said NGP VAN was conducting an audit, and that the DNC is considering an additional outside audit.

Regardless of how things ultimately shake out, the transgression is an unsettling reminder for both political parties of how data systems thought to be bulletproof are exposed to new vulnerabilities constantly, as engineers make daily modifications in their bid to out-muscle the competition with new tools and algorithms.