Hillary Clinton Asks the DNC and Sanders Campaign to Protect Her Campaign’s Data

2016 presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s National Press Secretary Brian Fallon released a statement earlier today upon the revelation of the data breach of their campaign data by 2016 presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign, calling for protection of the Clinton campaign’s data.

“We were informed that our proprietary data was breached by Sanders campaign staff in 25 searches by four different accounts and that this data was saved into the Sanders’ campaign account. We are asking that the Sanders campaign and the DNC work expeditiously to ensure that our data is not in the Sanders campaign’s account and that the Sanders campaign only have access to their own data.”

This is certainly a very understated reaction to what amounts to a massive breach of campaign specific data in early voting states including Iowa and New Hampshire, which Time speculated cost the Clinton campaign millions of dollars.

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Time reported today:

According to data reviewed by TIME, the Sanders campaign appears to have obtained files with lists of voters that the Clinton campaign had cultivated in 10 early states including Iowa and New Hampshire.

Beyond simply reviewing the data, the logs show the Sanders staffers took deliberate steps to harvest and store the information. According to the logs, the Sanders staff created from scratch no fewer than 24 lists—consisting entirely of data pulled down from the Clinton campaign’s database—and saved them to their personal folders.

This story is still developing, as Senator Sanders is suing the DNC, while at the same time the information on the breach is troubling to say the least.

We are jumping in on a 6PM ET conference call with the Clinton campaign and will continue to update this story as information becomes available.

Update here.

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