Lessons From a Presidential Campaign Data Breach
It was perhaps the first major allegation of a cyber breach in a presidential campaign when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) claimed that staff members from the campaign of Bernie Sanders accessed unauthorized information from a voter database maintained by DNC. The DNC leases this database to various campaigns and the campaigns supplement it with their own information. However, campaigns are blocked via firewalls from viewing information supplied by rival campaigns. In this case, members of the Sanders campaign are alleged to have accessed information…
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