This is straight from one of the Podesta Emails: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15792
On December 19, 2015, a Hillary Campaign worker named Milia Fisher ([email protected]) transmitted to John Podesta ([email protected]) an article written by Amy Dacey, the former Chair of the DNC. In the article, Ms. Dacey reports that the DNC's data was accessed by Bernie supporters and some of the data was exported. THERE IS NO MENTION OF RUSSIANS OR PRESIDENT TRUMP. According to the CEO of the DNC (Amy Dacey), the data was stolen by one or more Bernie Sanders supporters.
The full text follows with the noteworthy parts in bold text (for added emphasis):
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH NGP VAN, THE SANDERS CAMPAIGN, AND THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN, And here are the steps we are taking to address the problem -- By AMY DACEY
The Democratic National Committee, through its software partner NGP VAN, provides tools for Democratic campaigns that are invaluable and second to none. This week, there was error with that system, however, which led to an incident involving the Sanders campaign.
We want to lay out exactly what happened so that people better understand why the DNC needed to suspend the Sanders campaign’s access to our system and how we’ve been working to fully resolve a serious problem — and get everyone back to work electing a Democrat to the White House in 2016.
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.
It’s important to make a few things clear from the start. At no point were donor records, financial information, or volunteer data exposed between campaigns. At no point was any data exposed to the public. With the correction of the glitch and further audits by NGP VAN, we are confident now that the data within the system is secure.
Once NGP VAN had taken steps to contain the glitch, the DNC directed NGP VAN to conduct a thorough analysis to:
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Identify any users who may have accessed information from another campaign inappropriately,
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Pinpoint exactly what actions any such users took in the system, and
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Report these findings to the DNC so we would know what, if any, data was actually acquired.
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. [emphasis added] 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.
On Thursday, the Sanders campaign did move to fire its national data director. But we still weren’t provided the information we needed from the campaign until late in the evening on Friday. Once they complied with our prior request and provided documentation that we were then able to review, we immediately restored the Sanders campaign’s access to the voter file — as was always our intention and as we had advised well before they sued the Committee.
And 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.
The DNC has also instructed NGP VAN to conduct a review process of their internal procedures to identify how this mistake was allowed to happen and prevent further such mistakes. The DNC is currently beginning the process of securing an additional, independent audit by a data security firm of NGP VAN’s procedures.
We are glad that all parties are moving forward and that the candidates and Democrats can refocus on engaging voters to show how our party will continue growing the economy and keep Americans safe.
Amy K. Dacey is the CEO of the Democratic National Committee.
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V____Z ago
This is a pretty convoluted story, here is what we learned from the press:
TL;DR:
The system had already been breached in October
and when the Sanders campaign alerted the DNC, nothing was done. The DNC hired this company to run the software for both campaigns. So if info was accessed by the Sanders side, it was done by a parties hired by the organization proven to have rigged the election against him. It's conceivable that it was done to harm him.
I know for certain that the Clinton campaign accessed Sanders data. I never give out my cell number, but i did give it to the Sanders campaign to receive text alerts. Once he dropped out of the race, i started getting texts and calls from Hillary campaign, though i absolutely never gave it to them, or the Democratic party.
From an article from someone who knows the software and the story well: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-data-breach-president-debate/ n an interview with MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki, Uretsky justified the actions of Sanders staff this way:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-campaign-dnc-voter-data-hillary-clinton-2015-12
[Sanders'] Campaign manager Jeff Weaver threatened to sue the Democratic National Committee after it revoked Sanders' access to its database of voters. The DNC did that after Sanders' team improperly accessed data compiled by the campaign of top rival Hillary Clinton.
"This is taking our campaign hostage," Weaver said in a press conference in Washington, a day before the next Democratic presidential debate.
Later in the day, the campaign made good on that threat: The Sanders campaign filed a lawsuit in federal court to regain access to the voter data. In the suit, the Sanders campaign alleged that the suspension was costing the campaign at least $600,000 per day. The lawsuit also alleges that the DNC did not provide the Sanders campaign with notice or opportunity consistent with an earlier agreement between the campaigns and the committee.
A summary of computer logs showed that four aides to Sanders' campaign accessed voter data compiled by Clinton's campaign, according to The Associated Press. Some of the aides reportedly saved the information. The Clinton campaign said its data was breached by the Sanders campaign in "25 searches by four different accounts," and that the data was saved into the Sanders campaign's account.
"This breach is totally unacceptable and may have been a violation of the law," Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a conference call with reporters Friday evening.
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The Sanders campaign said it had fired a staffer at center of the breach incident — data director Josh Uretsky.
Weaver blamed a vendor hired by the committee — political-data company NGP VAN — for what he alleged was continued "dangerous incompetence." He said he was confident that months ago, some of the Sanders campaign's own data was lost to another campaign.
"First, as I pointed out earlier, this is not the first time that the vendor hired by the DNC … has allowed serious failures to occur. On more than one occasion they have dropped the firewall between the data of competing Democratic campaigns. This is dangerous incompetence. It was our campaign months ago that alerted the DNC to the fact that the campaign data was being made available to other campaigns," he said.
He added: "Once again, the sensitive and important data was compromise because the DNC and its vendor failed to protect it. We have invested enormous campaign resources in acquiring the rights to use this proprietary data. But the DNC, in an inappropriate overreaction, has denied us access to our very own data. This is data collected by hundreds of thousands of volunteers across America."
Uretsky told CNN Friday that he was only trying to "understand how badly the Sanders campaign's data was exposed" and not attempting to take any of the Clinton campaign's data.
SecondAmendment ago
Great information, @V____Z, and I was not aware of any of it. Thank you very much!
V____Z ago
Anytime! Thank you too!