Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign said Friday it has withdrawn a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee alleging the organization wrongly denied the campaign access to its database of voter information.
The lawsuit, filed late last year, came after the DNC abruptly cut the Sanders campaign’s access to the database after finding a Sanders campaign worker improperly accessed proprietary data from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
In a statement released Friday, the Sanders campaign strenuously denied any wrongdoing.
“The Sanders campaign never ‘stole’ any voter file data; the Sanders campaign never ‘exported’ any unauthorized voter file data; and the Sanders campaign certainly never had access to the Clinton campaign’s ‘strategic road map,’” the campaign said.
After the breach, Sanders himself apologized and his campaign fired its data director and suspended two other staffers, but accused the DNC of preferential treatment of Clinton for holding its own data “hostage.”
The DNC eventually restored its access to the information trove, which includes information gathered by the Sanders campaign.
This story has been updated.
