Donation site for Ottawa truckers’ ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest exposed donors’ data


The analysis of a sample of more than 6,600 comments made on the GoFundMe crowdfunding page before it was shut down shows that 573 donations amounting to more than $33,378 came from people who said they were located abroad.

More than half of those donors — 322 — said they were located in the United States. Collectively, American donors contributed $21,101, or 63.2 per cent of the money donated by people who said they were located outside of Canada.
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I'm wondering how much was just laundered through US addresses in an attempt to instigate some internal domestic squabbles prior to a world event.
 
Zeedox said:
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Donation site for Ottawa truckers' 'Freedom Convoy' protest exposed donors' data

GiveSendGo exposed passports and driver's licenses used to validate the payments of donors.
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From that article:

TechCrunch was tipped off to the data lapse after a person working in the security space found an exposed Amazon-hosted S3 bucket containing over 50 gigabytes of files, including passports and driver licenses that were collected during the donation process.​

Wow. I mean just wow!

That is of course going to lead to an onslaught of identity theft.

Zeedox said:



I'm wondering how much was just laundered through US addresses in an attempt to instigate some internal domestic squabbles prior to a world event.
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I honestly don't think very many at all. You have to remember that over a million Canadian citizens live in the U.S. It's not a stretch that several hundred are right wingers supporting their own back home.
 
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