Sanders camp suspends two more staffers over data breach

[JDPriestly]

101. I used to work with databases.

Back in the day.

We need an investigation to determine what happened.

There was a basic database and each campaign entered information into it in a separate database of its own.

The vendor was supposed to maintain a firewall between the databases.

My theory is that at some point, the Sanders campaign noticed some data from Hillary's campaign was in the database they had been provided. They weren't sure that was the case, so they ran queries to identify specifically what and how much Hillary data was in their database.

My theory is that they found a lot.

Bernie's employees had previously found a breach in October in that same or another database and had reported it to the DNC, the organization responsible for the hiring and supervision of the vendor responsible for maintaining the firewall and the databases.

Bernie's employees made lists to prove the extent of the mixing of the data so that they could later inform the DNC.

The DNC went to the press before giving the Sanders campaign the required time to work with the vendor and the DNC on repairing the firewall.

This is my theory of what happened based on my past experience with entering information and retrieving information from a database that was large.

This was the vendor's fault and responsibility.

I saw a list of the queries made by Bernie's employees.

They were specifically intended to sort Hillary's information.

In my opinion, based on my experience, if Bernie's employees had wanted to "steal" Hilary's information, they would have made broader queries that did not use Hillary's name but that would gather up a lot of information that would have included Hillary's. Then they could have queried the information for Sanders' specific data and would have seen that the information they got for Sanders was more limited. The information not retrieved during the Sanders query would have been Hillary's.

My theory.

This requires more investigation.

Sanders' campaign has been accused of wrongdoing by Hillary, the DNC and their supporters. Sanders has the right and the responsibility to set the record straight.