2016 Postmortem

RandySF

(59,186 posts) Fri Dec 18, 2015, 04:30 AM Dec 2015

FOUR Sanders campaign user accounts were used to search Clinton campaign data.

The decision by the party committee is a major blow to Mr. Sanders’s campaign. The database includes information from voters across the nation and is used by campaigns to set strategy, especially in the early voting states.

The breach occurred after a software problem at the technology company NGP VAN, which gives campaigns access to the voter data. The problem inadvertently made proprietary voter data of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign visible to others, according to party committee officials.

The Sanders campaign said that it had fired a staff member who breached Mrs. Clinton’s data. But according to three people with direct knowledge of the breach, there were four user accounts associated with the Sanders campaign that ran searches while the security of Mrs. Clinton’s data was compromised.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/18/sanders-campaign-disciplined-for-breaching-clinton-data/

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FOUR Sanders campaign user accounts were used to search Clinton campaign data. (Original Post) RandySF Dec 2015 OP

It didn't say they specifically searched Clinton campaign data jfern Dec 2015 #1

Isn't that the same kind of slithering that so many Sanders supporters despise? RandySF Dec 2015 #2

Well yes--that is exactly what they did. MADem Dec 2015 #7

Sure looks deliberate. That must be why Bernie just fired his National Data Director. SunSeeker Dec 2015 #3

NOt some low level guy either.. well, good he's fired. Cha Dec 2015 #5

They need to cough up three more names. They refuse to answer press questions. MADem Dec 2015 #6

They could be nobodies. joshcryer Dec 2015 #9

And they could be Very Senior Somebodies, too. MADem Dec 2015 #10

KIck! Cha Dec 2015 #4

Kick for truth...nt SidDithers Dec 2015 #8

CHEATER JaneyVee Dec 2015 #11

Wow! What a thing to wake up to! =-O NurseJackie Dec 2015 #12

Deflect deflect deflect!!!!!! yardwork Dec 2015 #13

The self-righteous facade is crumbling. Alfresco Dec 2015 #14

Things are not looking too good for the Sanders Campaign. BooScout Dec 2015 #15

Bad News for Bernie. Alfresco Dec 2015 #16

Who are the three people with direct knowledge of the breach? mhatrw Dec 2015 #17

jfern

(5,204 posts)

1. It didn't say they specifically searched Clinton campaign data

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 04:31 AM

Dec 2015

RandySF

(59,186 posts)

2. Isn't that the same kind of slithering that so many Sanders supporters despise?

Reply to jfern (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 04:35 AM

Dec 2015

MADem

(135,425 posts)

7. Well yes--that is exactly what they did.

Reply to jfern (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:03 AM

Dec 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/18/sanders-campaign-disciplined-for-breaching-clinton-data/?_r=0

The Democratic National Committee has told the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont that it was suspending its access to its voter database after a software error enabled at least one of his staff members to review Hillary Clinton’s private campaign data....

The Sanders campaign said that it had fired a staff member who breached Mrs. Clinton’s data. But according to three people with direct knowledge of the breach, there were four user accounts associated with the Sanders campaign that ran searches while the security of Mrs. Clinton’s data was compromised....

... “After discussion with the D.N.C., it became clear that one of our staffers accessed some modeling data from another campaign. That behavior is unacceptable and that staffer was immediately fired.”

He added that the errors had also “made our records vulnerable.” Despite repeated requests, the Sanders campaign did not provide information about the other user accounts that were involved.

The question is, who in the Sanders campaign owned those 'other user accounts' -- how high up in the organization were they? To put a finer point on it, why won't the Sanders campaign come clean and admit who the other people were who were looking at the data? Why are they refusing to answer questions? Are they looking for someone to 'take the fall' for someone more senior?

Have to laugh at the 'victim tack' after they got caught red-handed.

SunSeeker

(51,670 posts)

3. Sure looks deliberate. That must be why Bernie just fired his National Data Director.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 04:40 AM

Dec 2015

Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign has fired its national data director after he improperly accessed proprietary data from Hillary Clinton's campaign.

The staffer, Josh Uretsky, viewed data that the Clinton campaign had added to its own files during a temporary glitch in the voter database managed by outside vendor NGP VAN, two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

The Sanders campaign confirmed late Thursday that it had fired a staffer who had accessed modeling data from the Clinton campaign. "That behavior is unacceptable and that staffer was immediately fired," communications director Michael Briggs said in a statement.

Briggs responded to a question about Uretsky by sharing that statement with Bloomberg a second time.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-18/sanders-campaign-fires-data-director-after-breach-of-clinton-files

Cha

(297,582 posts)

5. NOt some low level guy either.. well, good he's fired.

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 04:45 AM

Dec 2015

MADem

(135,425 posts)

6. They need to cough up three more names. They refuse to answer press questions.

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 07:53 AM

Dec 2015

I am starting to wonder how high up those names were.

Despite repeated requests, the Sanders campaign did not provide information about the other user accounts that were involved.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/18/sanders-campaign-disciplined-for-breaching-clinton-data/?_r=0

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)

9. They could be nobodies.

Reply to MADem (Reply #6)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:07 AM

Dec 2015

This isn't VEEP where you burn some low level staffer. They could well have accessed the files, saw the issue, and reported it immediately. That would not merit a firing.

Now if they were all grabbing data or something I could see that.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

10. And they could be Very Senior Somebodies, too.

Reply to joshcryer (Reply #9)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:45 AM

Dec 2015

They didn't report it to the DNC. The VENDOR did that.

This distracting noise that they sounded the alarm is not born out by reporting on this issue. And one staffer has been fired--and where there's a firing paired with a refusal to respond to repeated requests for information, per the NYT, there's more "there" there.