The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is rebuffing accusations that they improperly accessed voter information collected by Hillary Clinton's campaign. Sanders' campaign say that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is trying to "undermine" their efforts to get Sanders elected.

Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver delivered a strong and adamant public statement on Friday, in which he said the data breach was due to incompetence on part of the DNC, and that they had already reported that the campaign data was available to others months ago.

"It was our campaign months ago that alerted the DNC to the fact that campaign data was being made available to other campaigns," said Weaver, in the statement obtained by Latin Post. "At that time our campaign did not run to the media, relying instead on assurances from the vendor that the problem would be resolved. Unfortunately, the other day, the vendor once again dropped the firewall between the campaigns for some data."

According to the Washington Post, the DNC discovered the Sanders campaign had downloaded and exported data gathered by Clinton campaign earlier this week, and subsequently shut off their access to the Democratic voter list.

The move could be potentially disastrous for the Sanders campaign, which heavily relies on the DNC's database to access vital voter information.

Weaver went on to say in his public statement that they had fired the head staffer who had erroneously accessed the data from Clinton's campaign.

The campaign manager was especially critical of the DNC using the incident to restrict access to information obtained by the Sanders' campaign, strongly insinuating that it was a strategic attempt to support presidential rival Clinton.

"By their action, the leadership of the Democratic National Committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign," said Weaver. "This is unacceptable. Individual leaders of the DNC can support Hillary Clinton in any way they want, but they are not going to sabotage our campaign - one of the strongest grassroots campaigns in modern history."

Weaver went on to say they had no interest in Clinton's data, and that they were going to run a "clean campaign" without using "dirty tricks."

The Republican National Committee (RNC) also issued a statement on Friday. RNC Chief Strategist and Communications Director Sean Spicer said, "Every candidate has equal access to our superior data file at the RNC because we believe primaries should be a process free from party interference and that puts voters and campaigns first. That's why it is so troubling to see the DNC engage in such heavy-handed favoritism benefitting Hillary Clinton, a pattern which will continue [Saturday] night with another debate deliberately scheduled to limit viewership."