The Democratic National Committee has just suspended Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign from accessing its voter database. This after the campaign took advantage of a software error to access Hillary Clinton's confidential voter information.
This major suspension is a setback for the Vermont senator, because the database is a goldmine of information about voters nationwide. Campaigns usually use that data to plot their next moves.
The DNC database keeps the information gathered by different campaigns separated by a firewall. But the data systems vendor that runs the program dropped the firewall for a brief period Wednesday, during which time the data was accessed.
A Sanders spokesman said the staffer's behavior is unacceptable and that person was fired immediately.
