Democratic presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders on Sunday apologised to his rival Hillary Clinton for inadvertently breaching into her election database to access information about her voters. “Yes, I apologise,” Sanders said replying to a question after he acknowledged that his presidential election campaign “by mistake” intruded into the election data base of Clinton.
He said the individual responsible for this has been fired. Both Sanders,74, and Clinton, 68, are seeking be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee for the 2016 elections.
The public apology by Sanders to Clinton is expected to bring an end to the bitter fight that had erupted between the two campaigns on Saturday after the Democratic Party suspended his campaign access to its data following the security breach. A day earlier, Sanders had sued his own Democratic party for blocking his campaign from accessing its digital database. He had alleged his campaign is losing $600,000 in donations each day as it cannot access the party’s data.