Bernie Sanders' campaign punished for reviewing Hillary Clinton's private data

The Democratic National Committee has suspended Bernie Sanders' campaign from an important national voter database as punishment for accessing Hillary Clinton's private campaign data when security was compromised, The New York Times reports. A technological problem in the voter data system accidentally made Clinton's proprietary voter data available to see; reportedly four different user accounts from Sanders' campaign ran searches while Clinton's account was exposed, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Sanders' campaign spokesman Michael Briggs said, "After discussion with the D.N.C., it became clear that one of our staffers accessed some modeling data from another campaign. That behavior is unacceptable and that staffer was immediately fired." Briggs added Sanders' campaign data was also made vulnerable.

The D.N.C. has taken disciplinary action against Sanders' campaign, suspending access to its database of information on voters across the nation, which is used by campaigns to strategize, particularly in early voting states.

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