Here’s what happened with NGP VAN, the Sanders Campaign, and the Clinton Campaign

[MADem]

And here are the steps we are taking to address the problem

And it doesn't look good for the Sanders campaign at all.....

The whole piece is worth reading. No wonder Sanders is pissed off at some of his staff.

As a result of this analysis, NGP VAN found that campaign staff on the Sanders campaign, including the campaign’s national data director, had accessed proprietary information about which voters were being targeted by the Clinton campaign — and in doing so violated their agreements with the DNC.
These staffers then saved this information in their personal folders on the system, and over the course of the next day, we learned that at least one staffer appeared to have generated reports and exported them from the system.

None of this is in dispute. It’s fully documented in the system logs. And these details reveal nothing less than a serious violation of the agreements governing the use of this data. Underscoring that fact is the point that the Sanders campaign has fired their national data director and indicated further disciplinary actions may be taken pending the results of their own investigation.
When we understood what initially happened, we asked the Sanders campaign to tell us who exactly accessed Hillary for America information, share their understanding of what data was accessed, describe what was done with that information, and detail how the campaign intended to discipline the staffers involved.

On Thursday, further NGP VAN analysis revealed that it was very likely that a user had taken data out of the system during the breach. Upon learning that, the DNC had to suspend the Sanders campaign’s access to the voter file to ensure the integrity of the system. This action was not taken to punish the Sanders campaign — it was necessary to ensure that the Sanders campaign took appropriate steps to resolve the issue and wasn’t unfairly using another campaign’s data. This temporary suspension was well within the DNC’s authority. Moreover, the DNC was left with little choice in the matter when the Sanders campaign declined to respond in a timely manner to the requests for assistance with an investigation....the information obtained so far shows that the DNC’s concern to have a full, thorough inquiry was fully justified: As confirmed by the Sanders campaign in the account given the DNC Friday evening, one of the employees of the campaign involved in the misconduct tried to delete the notes they made recording their accessing of Clinton campaign data to hide his activities.

The next step is to continue to investigate the incident with the help of an independent auditor. This is necessary to confirm, as the Sanders campaign has assured us, that the data that was inappropriately accessed is no longer in possession of the Sanders campaign. The Sanders campaign has agreed to fully cooperate with the continuing DNC investigation of this breach.

[JaneyVee]

1. Drip...drip....drip...

[Renew Deal]

2. I've been saying that the story is not that bad but...

Maybe the Sanders campaign knew the story was worse than people knew. That's why they fired the first guy.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. Interesting. Thanks for posting.

I also thought this part was worth noting.

On Wednesday morning, NGP VAN applied a new software patch to the DNC’s voter database system, and because of an error in the code, users were capable of accessing some limited, yet extremely valuable information belonging to other campaigns for a very brief window of time. Even though the glitch opened access, users still needed to take deliberate steps to seek out such information.

[peacebird]

5. According to DWS & the DNC, hardly impartial actors in this

[Segami]

14. Written by Amy Dacey....

Wasn't she the one who leaked the data breach to the press?......

[SoLeftIAmRight]

6. All we know is what we have been told

We will never know all that has happened.

[Rose Siding]

7. Sanders camp suspends two more staffers

Bernie Sanders' campaign suspended two more staffers directly involved in the data breach that has roiled the party, a Sanders aide confirmed to POLITICO after the Democratic debate on Saturday night.
Pending an investigation, the two aides join data director Josh Uretsky in leaving the campaign following the revelation that they accessed and downloaded voter information from Hillary Clinton's team during a technology glitch on Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/bernie-sanders-suspends-two-staffers-217007#ixzz3us2laQTi

[enid602]

8. good cop, bad cop

While Sanders appears benign, pure and grandfatherly, his supporters and staffers seem to take a scorched earth, if Bernie can't have it, nobody can approach.

[Cha]

9. Thank you, I missed this!

[Cha]

10. KICK

[NCTraveler]

11. .

"Even though the glitch opened access, users still needed to take deliberate steps to seek out such information."

[DanTex]

12. K&R. Great article, and very informative.

[Number23]

13. This one story single handedly blows up every hare-brained "idea" of how this played out

1. That it was the company's fault and not the Sanders campaign.

2. That nothing was actually taken.

3. That the DNC "caved" due to the mighty force of the lawsuit filed by Sanders.

Blows all of them out of the water. Now maybe this lawsuit will be retracted and we can finally move on.