Bernie Sanders speaks live about the accusations a staffer inappropriately accessed DNC voter data.
The Sanders campaign brought the breach to the attention of the DNC and fired the staffer, but the DNC has blocked the Sanders campaign from the voter database in response.
Sanders will discuss live, above.
“Sanders’s team blamed the incident on a firewall software error Wednesday that allowed its data director to view voter information that was supposed to be private for their rival campaign. The data system vendor, NGP VAN, alerted the DNC to the issue that same day,” The Hill reports.
“That behavior is unacceptable and that staffer was fired immediately,” Sanders’s spokesman Michael Briggs told CNN.
The DNC says access for Sanders will remain suspended until it provides an explanation for how the incident occurred and assurances that the data has been destroyed.
UPDATE:
It appears Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, not Sanders himself, is speaking.Â
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