The Bernie campaign never stole anything. Discontinue spreading this misinformation. [View all]

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Anyone continuing to spread this are going to be marking themselves.

Seriously. Just do the research.

Here is NGP VAN's statement clearly communicating that NO data was stolen --

http://blog.ngpvan.com/news/data-security-and-privacy

First, a one page-style report containing summary data on a list was saved out of VoteBuilder by one Sanders user. This is what some people have referred to as the “export” from VoteBuilder. As noted below, users were unable to export lists of people.

On Wednesday morning, there was a release of VAN code. Unfortunately, it contained a bug. For a brief window, the voter data that is always searchable across campaigns in VoteBuilder included client scores it should not have, on a specific part of the VAN system. So for voters that a user already had access to, that user was able to search by and view (but not export or save or act on) some attributes that came from another campaign.

Finally, here is the Snopes page that has been updating the fact checking on all claims since the event began. Their conclusion? Well read it for yourself!

http://www.snopes.com/bernie-sanders-campaign-data-breach-controversy/

CLAIM: Staffers on Bernie Sanders' campaign deliberately and improperly accessed information about the Hillary Clinton campaign during a brief (30-40 minute-long) data security lapse.

WHAT'S TRUE: During a brief security lapse due to a bug on the part of third-party campaign information data company NGP VAN, four staffers from the Bernie Sanders campaign had unauthorized access to limited data pertaining to the Hillary Clinton campaign. The DNC has since pledged to restore the Sanders campaign's access to the voter files.

WHAT'S FALSE: The data were accessed over a lengthy period; the data were "exported" or otherwise extracted; the data were of high value to the Sanders campaign.

WHAT'S UNDETERMINED: What the staffers' intent in accessing the data was; whether the Clinton campaign engaged in similar activity during the 2008 campaign but was unsanctioned (as asserted in a suit filed by Sanders' campaign against the DNC); under precisely which circumstances the staffers accessed the information; the manner in which the proprietary software operated and the ease with which such data might be accessed deliberately or inadvertently.

There. This is now settled.

UPDATE: Here's a piece of logic that also needs to be mentioned.

We are confident at this point that no campaigns have access to or have retained any voter file data of any other clients; with one possible exception, one of the presidential campaigns.

No one has retained anything, with of course... One possible exception.

If it were Bernie... Then the DNC wouldn't have buckled to his lawsuit threat. They could have kept the data from Bernie and stood proud today.

But they buckled. Wonder why?

Maybe it's because they don't actually have the dirt on Bernie. And maybe that one possible exception is some other campaign.