Limited Distribution: GiveSendGo Trucker donors (33.6 MB)
A spreadsheet with self-reported donor names, email addresses and postal codes for people funding the occupation of Ottawa
On February 10, the Superior Court of Ontario ordered the US Christian fundraising website GiveSendGo to freeze the money from a fundraising campaign for the trucker occupation that has blockaded downtown Ottawa as well as key transportation routes and US border crossings across Canada. The protest started in opposition to vaccination requirements for truckers crossing the international border, but has expanded to include many far right and anti-government strains. The US-based fundraising website announced it would not comply with the Ontario court order to freeze the funds.
Then, hackers froze the GiveSendGo website itself, replacing it with a video from the Disney film Frozen overlaid with their manifesto, as well as 33.6 MB of data in a spreadsheet with the names and locations of people who donated to the trucker campaign.
DDoSecrets has retrieved this data from the now-defunct website “givesendgone.wtf” as first reported by Mikael Thalen of the Daily Dot.
This donor information is specific to the Freedom Convoy campaign raising funds for the trucker occupation of Ottawa on the GiveSendGo donations platform as of February 13, 2022, includes donor names (self-reported), email addresses and postal codes.
Due to PII in the dataset, the dataset is only being offered to journalists and researchers.
Using the dataset, Gizmodo reported that a large number of donors to the campaign were based in the United States:
Gizmodo has reached out to several of the people who are listed as top donors, asking them to confirm their donations, including a person with the name Thomas Siebel, who donated $90,000, according to the leaked data. (Thomas Siebel is the name of an American software billionaire.)
At the time of writing, only a single donor had responded—to say Gizmodo should investigate Black Lives Matter instead.
While more individuals from the US donated than individuals in Canada, there was more money coming from Canadians donors than anywhere else. From Vice:
Analysis of the leaked data by extremism researcher Amarnath Amarasingam shows that while the majority of donors come from the U.S. (56%) and Canada (29%), there are also thousands of donations from overseas, including the U.K., Australia, and Ireland. Despite over 15,000 more donations flooding in from the U.S., Canadian donors out-raised Americans by almost $1 million, bringing in $4.3 million compared to $3.6 million, Amarasingam reported.
The Canadian Press reached out to several of the individuals named on the list and received confirmation from one that the data in the leak was accurate:
One donor listed on the data set confirmed that he donated to the campaign. Brad Howland, who was listed as giving US$75,000 said in a written statement Monday that he supports the convoy. Howland is president of Easy-Kleen Pressure Systems in Sussex Corner, N.B. “We are thankful to be blessed enough to support their efforts to do what they have to do in a peaceful way until the government removes the mandates to restore all our freedom as pre-COVID,” he said.
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Other coverage of this leak from:
The Beacon (Ireland)
Le Devoir
The Guardian
Reuters
The Daily Mail
The Cryptosphere
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