Holy Shit.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...s-data-director-after-breach-of-clinton-files
Bernie Sanders presidential campaign exploited a temporary glitch in the Democratic National Committee's voter database to save lists created by Hillary Clintons campaign, according to an audit of the breach obtained by Bloomberg.
Sanderss campaign has sought to downplay the severity of the incident, initially saying that only a single low-level staffer accessed the Clinton data and that none of it was saved. But the audit of the database's logs created by the vendor that manages the data, NGP VAN, show that four accounts associated with the Sanders team took advantage of the Wednesday morning breach. Staffers conducted searches that would be especially advantageous to the campaign, including lists of its likeliest supporters in 10 early voting states, including Iowa and New Hampshire.
The DNC, which maintains a master file of voter information with NGP VAN, has responded by suspending the Sanders campaign's access to the system until the campaign can fully explain the breach. Campaigns rent access from the party, and update the files with their own data culled from field work and other investments.
After one Sanders account gained access to the Clinton data, the audits show, that user began sharing permissions with other Sanders users. The staffers who secured access to the Clinton data included national data director Josh Uretsky, who was fired on Thursday, and his deputy, Russell Drapkin. The two other usernames that viewed Clinton information were talani" and "csmith_bernie."
Though the Sanders campaign initially claimed that it had not saved Clinton data, the logs show that the Vermont senators team created at least 24 lists during the 40-minute breach, which started at 10:40 a.m., and saved those list to their personal folders.
