The Democratic party went from facing Hillary Clinton's email crisis to Bernie Sanders having his own digital scandal.
The Vermont senator and presidential hopeful's campaign has been locked out of the Democratic National Committee's database after it was revealed earlier this week that a staff member inappropriately accessed Clinton campaign data.
According to the Associated Press, a computer log report indicated that four aides from Sanders' campaign accessed voter data from Clinton's campaign. A person with knowledge of the data told the AP that it represented Clinton's campaign investments.
The Sanders campaign fired one staff member, but overall, placed the blame on the person who runs the DNC voter database for what they called making "serious errors."
During a press conference Friday, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said this is nothing more than a DNC attempt to undermine their campaign.
"Clearly, in this case, they are trying to help the Clinton campaign," Weaver told the AP, adding that he would file a lawsuit later on Friday if the DNC didn't restore the campaign's access to the database immediately.
"This is taking our campaign hostage," Weaver also told the media at the press conference, as reported by The Verge. "It's impossible to mobilize the kind of grassroots campaign we have without access to that data."
He also said that of the four staffers from Sanders campaign that accessed Clinton campaign data, only one of those employees' offenses crossed the line and that was person was terminated.
