2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Explains DNC Data Breach and Hillary Says "We Should Just Move on..." [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The vendor. Whether it was NGP VAN or some other vendor, I do not see that Sanders' campaign had any control over the databases or could have done the searches unless there was a breach of the firewall and security of the databases. That could not have been Bernie's employees' fault because they would have had no way to access the database unless it was provided to them or they hacked it. I have not heard any claim that they hacked into the database. I have only heard that they were provided access to the database and they searched it and made lists.
How did Bernie's team get access to the database of Hillary if the security provisions established by the vendor(s) were in place and functioning.
Again, it was not the duty of anyone in the Sanders campaign to establish the security protections for Hillary's data. Had those protections been in place and had they functioned, this entire issue would not have arisen.
It is clearly the fault of the vendor, not of the Sanders campaign that the Hillary data was accessible to the Sanders campaign.