Subject: RE: Your story didn't include DNC Statement
From: <[email-masked]>
To: Jason Easley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:35:50 -0400

Will do. Thanks

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From: Jason Easley <[email-masked]> 
Date: 04/29/2016  8:06 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]> 
Subject: Re: Your story didn't include DNC Statement 

Thanks Luis,

Please feel free to add me to your press list ([email-masked]) so that this never happens again. I will add your statement to my story right now.

Thanks again,

Jason

JASON EASLEY 
Owner/Editor-in-Chief PoliticusUSA
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Miranda, Luis 
<[email-masked]> wrote:

Hi, your story on Politicsusa didn’t include any DNC perspective. Here’s a quote from me and below that our DNC statement:

“The forensic analysis conducted by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike confirmed that the DNC’s initial findings, which were the basis of the temporary shutdown in December, were accurate.
 The audit confirmed that one campaign gained unauthorized access to the data of another, and the audit further confirmed that the results of those searches were saved within the system and that data was exported. Following the conclusion of the audit that
 confirmed the DNC's original findings, the Sanders campaign withdrew its lawsuit.”  - DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda

Luis
 Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 –
[email-masked] - 
@MiraLuisDC

 
For Immediate Release
April 29, 2016
 
Contact: DNC Press – 
202-863-8148
 
DNC Statement
 
On December 18, 2015, the Democratic National Committee and Bernie 2016 appeared in United States District Court on Bernie 2016’s indication that it would be seeking an injunction in the breach of contract action
 it filed against the DNC earlier that day. The Sanders campaign alleged that the DNC wrongfully terminated its access to the party-administered voter file system, VoteBuilder, following DNC’s discovery that Sanders campaign personnel had discovered a flaw
 in system security and had accessed Clinton campaign proprietary score data.  

The parties proceeded in the course of the hearing to settle the immediate issue before the Court. The DNC agreed to restore access to VoteBuilder by the next day, and the campaign agreed to cooperate in an independent
 investigation of the data breach.  The Sanders campaign also agreed as part of this investigation to assume a share of the costs of the investigation.
 
The DNC and the Sanders campaign agreed on the retention of CrowdStrike to conduct the investigation. Over a five-week period and the commitment to the work of 128 hours, CrowdStrike examined user activity within
 VoteBuilder by three Democratic Presidential campaigns: Hillary for America, Bernie 2016, and O’Malley for President.  Additionally, CrowdStrike conducted a forensic examination of two systems belonging to the Bernie 2016 campaign. The investigation sought
 to first identify whether any campaigns’ users accessed data via the VoteBuilder system in an unauthorized fashion and then determine the nature of any unauthorized access that did occur.
 
The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has concluded the independent investigation agreed to by the DNC and Bernie 2016.  It identified evidence of unauthorized access via four user accounts from the Bernie 2016 campaign.
  All unauthorized access occurred during a one-hour period from 10:41 to 11:42 EST on December 16, 2015.

During that time, the four users conducted 25 searches using proprietary Hillary for America score data across 11 states.  All of the results of these searches were saved within the VoteBuilder system, with the
 exception of one instance where a user exported a statistical summary of a search using HFA scoring in New Hampshire.

CrowdStrike found no evidence of unauthorized access by the Hillary for America or O’Malley for President campaigns. 

Today, the Sanders campaign also voluntarily dismissed the breach of contract action pending against the DNC.

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