Data breach: NGP VAN "played no part in the October data issue that has been mentioned"

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

5. Another NGP SUB-system???

NGP advertises and provides a total turn-key "system" to campaigns.

In his public apology, the NGP CEO very carefully said "another system" and NOT "another vendor's system."

Campaigns use NGP for donor prospects, donor files, FEC compliance, broadcast email, website hosting, volunteer tracking and more. Most of these sub-systems, like The VAN, were developed by other third-parties and "integrated" to some degree in the NGP total campaign solution.

So if one or more sub-systems of the NGP provided software went down in October, it is most likely that the first staffer to notice and report would say something more like "NGP is down" or "NGP is acting weird" rather than saying "Gee, I'm getting too much information from the highly positive list in NH. There must be a bug in The VAN voter file."

No one seems to deny there was an NGP software problem in October. Where and what that problem was still remains a mystery. Still many questions to answer.