2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Very disappointing: Bernie Sanders repeats falsehoods about data breach. [View all]Jarqui
(10,150 posts)discover they could see Clinton's data.
Their IT guy, who they fired, claims he attempted to get evidence of the breach - because he felt the Sanders data was equally exposed but he had to use other campaign data to prove it. I think the data logs of their activity back him up on that. And the software vendor says they didn't export any of these "lists" they generated - which backs up the IT guy's claims.
The problem is that last October, another two breaches occurred. The Sanders campaign manager feels "very confident" that the Sanders data was compromised at that time. They told the DNC about it and the DNC got the security hole plugged. But the DNC handled the rest very differently than this time - they largely appear to have ignored going beyond closing the security hole.
DWS called for an independent audit of this breach which the Sanders campaign welcomed and encouraged during their first press conference on this. But the Sanders campaign want this audit to extend back to when they feel their data was compromised - and DWS behaved very differently - no independent audit, no media leak, no suspension of a campaign access to the system.
If they do not get agreement from the DNC to do an independent audit of the breaches last October, then they'll take the issue to court.
Bernie and his people do not appear to have lied to anyone. And now, they're going to try get to the bottom of this mess whether the DNC or Clinton campaign like it or not. I find it vary hard to blame them. It could get rather embarrassing for the DNC or the Clinton campaign.