DNC: Sanders Campaign Improperly Accessed Clinton Voter Data

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

By Rosalind S. Helderman, Anne Gearan and John Wagner December 17 at 11:47 PM

Officials with the Democratic National Committee have accused the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders of improperly accessing confidential voter information gathered by the rival campaign of Hillary Clinton, according to several party officials.

Jeff Weaver, the Vermont senator’s campaign manager, acknowledged that a low-level staffer had viewed the information but blamed a software vendor hired by the DNC for a glitch that allowed access. Weaver said one Sanders staffer was fired over the incident.

The discovery sparked alarm at the DNC, which promptly shut off the Sanders campaign’s access to the strategically crucial list of likely Democratic voters.

The DNC maintains the master list and rents it to national and state campaigns, which then add their own, proprietary information gathered by field workers and volunteers. Firewalls are supposed to prevent campaigns from viewing data gathered by their rivals.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-sanders-campaign-improperly-accessed-clinton-voter-data/2015/12/17/a2e2e14e-a522-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html

[fbc]

1. "The DNC places a high priority on maintaining the security of our system"

Well, obviously not.

If a staffer could access data then the security was sloppy or non-existent. We aren't talking about a hacker here.

The DNC really needs to get their shit together and start with with auditing this vendor who apparently is not investing in proper security.

[Renew Deal]

33. It might not be a hacking style breach

They probably misapplied rights to certain data.

[Leftyforever]

2. oh... if you only put in the next paragraph..... here it is below... I smell Clintonian desperation!

Source: Washington Post

By Rosalind S. Helderman, Anne Gearan and John Wagner December 17 at 11:47 PM


NGP VAN, the vendor that handles the master file, said the incident occurred Wednesday while a patch was being applied to the software. The process briefly opened a window into proprietary information from other campaigns, said the company’s chief, Stu Trevelyan. He said a full audit will be conducted.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-sanders-campaign-improperly-accessed-clinton-voter-data/2015/12/17/a2e2e14e-a522-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html

[fbc]

3. If a "patch" is going to expose data, you take the system ofline.

[winter is coming]

11. Which begs the question of why it wasn't done.

And why the DNC continued to use this vendor after previous similar incidents.

[kenfrequed]

37. The Sanders people reported this before to the DNC

What kind of firewall just turns itself on and off again?

I can't believe that this is new.

[bemildred]

4. This is what our politicians really obsess about.

Is DWS still running the DNC?

[RandySF]

26. Oh yes, let's please forget about this as soon as possible,

[bemildred]

29. Not likely. nt

[ucrdem]

5. Team Bernie better pray that Hillary doesn't bring this up on Saturday

because both Bill and Hill have a talent for turning crap into campaign gold.

[fbc]

7. Really?

When has Hillary Clinton turned anything into campaign gold? She was handed a senate seat and then lost a primary.

[ucrdem]

10. Benghazi would be the most recent example.

It took Hillary awhile to find her feet again as a stand-alone act but back in the Clinton years she got to be very good at scoring points off the latest scandal.

[SunSeeker]

6. "Weaver said one Sanders staffer was fired over the incident."

Sounds like there is intentional conduct here. You don't fire a staffer if it was all just a third party's mistake.

[Le Taz Hot]

9. Yeah, you do.

If you're a campaign that wants to remain above suspicion. Something foreign to the Hillary camp.

[SunSeeker]

16. So you think Sander's National Data Director didn't know what he was going was improper?

As another DUer noted in another thread,

It was the National Data Director, Josh Uretsky, who improperly accessed the data, not some kid, poking around the database for fun. 

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

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=908179

[Le Taz Hot]

18. I don't know and neither do you.

People are going to peg this for exactly what it is. This is going to backfire BIG time. The fact is the Bernie campaign warned the DNC about the sloppy security months ago. This isn't going to work, guys. It just makes HRH even sleezier than she already is.

[SunSeeker]

19. Seriously? You're claiming this was a conspiracy to make Bernie look bad?

[Le Taz Hot]

20. You're claiming it's not?

[SunSeeker]

21. Wow.

[kjones]

31. No man, that needs two hats

A conspiracy within a conspiracy...

[SunSeeker]

44. LOL

[ucrdem]

22. Of course it's not.

Don't worry, chances are it won't come up, but it might, as a question. I don't think Hillary would bring it up otherwise because it makes the party look disorganized and offers an opening to the GOP. But if she's asked she'll answer.

[Le Taz Hot]

24. LOL! Hillary will be bringing this up in the debate

within the first 10 minutes. Count on it.

[ucrdem]

25. Why? She doesn't need to.

Based on what I've seen so far her strategy will be to run against the GOP, not against Sanders, so unless he goes for the jugular out of the gate, or someone asks her about it, it wouldn't do her any good to get into the weeds first thing. It's also reminiscent of the server scandal that she hasn't quite put behind her.

[Le Taz Hot]

28. Well, we'll see in 2 days.

It would be stupid of her to do so, especially since Bernie handed her a "yuge" gift in the last debate by not taking the bait about her emails. But . . . with Mark Penn skulking around the Hillary campaign, nothing would surprise me.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

39. A conspiracy of one - DWS - that's all they need.

[SunSeeker]

43. So DWS conspired with Bernie's National Data Director to steal Clinton campaign info?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

45. OMG

[MisterFred]

14. Er...

It doesn't matter if Caesar's wife is perfect. If she isn't thought to be perfect by everyone else, Caesar gets rid of her.

[SunSeeker]

23. What an odd and sexist analogy. nt

[winter is coming]

8. Maybe the DNC should be shutting off funding to that vendor. This isn't the first time

campaigns have been able to see each other's info.

This stinks on ice.

[Le Taz Hot]

12. I'm finding the timing on this all too convenient.

[winter is coming]

13. Classic ratfucking. Some leopards don't change their spots. n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

15. This is going to backfire.

BIG time. People are already pissed off at the DNC about the debate schedule and they're voting with their pocketbooks as the DNC is in the red. They see this as what it is, the DNC going after Sanders right before a debate. This is going to backfire big time.

[winter is coming]

17. Yup. Think I'll just kick back and watch the slo-mo train wreck. n/t

[jwirr]

40. Exactly.

[pugetres]

27. Sounds like DWS and HRC are getting desperate.

This is depressing.

I think that I'll make another donation to the Sander's campaign. That'll make me feel much better.

[Democat]

30. It's Hillary's fault?

Blaming the victim?

[pugetres]

32. You have a point.

I should try much harder to separate the two. Whatever would DWS have in common with HRC?

I do feel much better after my visit to ActBlue regardless of who I am blaming.

[jwirr]

41. The last time Hillary set one of her PACs after Bernie he

had a huge response from donors. Looks like it is time again. I am going in to donate myself.

And why should we believe that poor Hillary has suddenly stopped acting like she always has?

[Meetello]

35. Why did Sanders fire the staffer?

I thought it was an anti-Sanders conspiracy.

[Meetello]

34. Who is dishonest and not trustworthy now?

Who would do anything to get elected?

[frylock]

42. Still Hillary.

[riversedge]

36. DNC penalizes Sanders campaign for improper access of Clinton voter data

Your OP link now has a new headline




DNC penalizes Sanders campaign for improper access of Clinton voter data

[HoosierCowboy]

38. Mentioned Sanders on the Main Stream Media...

...for once

[chervilant]

46. Pray tell us

why didn't the Sanders campaign's first disclosure regarding the lack of data security 'spark alarm at the DNC'? Coming, as it does, at the end of a week wherein Senator Sanders' campaign broke a number of campaign records, this "report" is highly suspect.

AND, it hit the media in the wee hours last night? Who released this report at that hour?

This entire brouhaha stinks to high heaven. Like Senator Sanders, I want answers to these and myriad other questions, before I make a determination about who did what and when.

If, as I suspect, DWS and her partisan hacks have pulled this stunt to benefit HRC, then there's yet another nail in that campaign's coffin. (Most of us know that it's Hillary the majority of respondents surveyed associated with the word "liar.&quot