Bernie Sanders suspends two more staffers in DNC data breach

Fredreka Schouten | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption More Sanders staffers suspended over data breach Two Bernie 2016 staffers were suspended in connection with the data breach of Democratic National Committee voter information. Video provided by Newsy

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton seemed to patch things up on the debate stage Saturday night over the Sanders camp's improper access of voter information compiled by Clinton's campaign. But despite Sanders' apology, the fallout from the data breach continues.

Sanders' campaign has suspended two more staffers who appear to be involved in downloading Clinton's campaign data

when a vendor's firewall failed, making voter information available to rival camps in the Democratic presidential primary. One Sanders' aide, national data director Josh Uretsky, was fired last week.

On Sunday, Sanders and his campaign manager Jeff Weaver continued to criticize the Democratic National Committee, which they accused of leaking news of the data breach to reporters. Sanders, speaking on ABC's This Week, also called the DNC's decision to temporarily block his access to the voter data a "total overreach."

Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri, interviewed on the same program, called the breach "a very serious matter," in which Sanders' camp "took data" and "tried to save it."

Palmieri said she was "absolutely sure" that Clinton staffers did not take advantage of the technical problem to access other campaigns' voter files.

On Saturday, asked about the breach by moderator David Muir of ABC News, Sanders said his staff acted improperly when the Clinton data “came to us” because the vendor “screwed up.”

“I apologize,” Sanders said. “Not only do I apologize to Secretary Clinton ... I want to apologize to my supporters. This is not the type of campaign that we run.” Sanders said he wanted to pursue an independent investigation with Clinton of how the breach occurred.

She agreed and said, “We should move on. Because I don’t think the American people are all that interested in this.”