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In reply to the discussion: Sanders camp suspends two more staffers over data breach [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)databases. I presume that there is a contract between the DNC and that vendor.
I assume that either explicitly or implicitly that contract imposes on that vendor the duty to maintain the security of Hillary's database, of the databases of each and every candidate using the system.
That vendor appears to have failed to maintain that security.
It is the breach of that duty to maintain that security that appears to be the problem here, not bad intentions on the part of any of the candidates' campaigns.
That is the problem in a nutshell.
Sanders' employees could not have queried Hillary's database had the vendor protected the security of that database as the contract we can presume required.
If Hillary has a problem,, she needs to talk to the vendor.
Bernie is suing the DNC for violating the contract terms under which his data was provided to the vendor of the DNC when Debbie Wasserman-Schultz denied Bernie the use of his database for a time in violation of the terms of the contract.
That is my understanding from what I have read in articles. I have not seen the contracts, but the terms I describe would have been routine, normal contract terms.
Hope this helps you understand the parties' positions a little better.
This is a contract case. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz did not take her accusations to the police for a reason.