60% of donors to ‘Adopt a Trucker’ GiveSendGo page were Canadian, new data leak shows
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Many of the donors in the latest leak expressed boisterous solidarity with the protesters in a comment section next to their donations.
A new data leak shows that about 60 per cent of donors to an “Adopt-a-Trucker” page on the online fundraising platform GiveSendGo were Canadian and 37 per cent were American.
About US$540,000 was raised on the page to support anti-vaccine mandate protesters in Ottawa and throughout Canada, according to data on donations made up to Feb. 10.
The new tranche of data was obtained by transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, which has previously provided the media with leaked information from right-wing organizations.
The analysis shows that more than 7,400 donors contributed an average of about US$72.29 for a total of US$540,166.58.
It was released on Tuesday following an earlier leak from the “Freedom Convoy 2022” page on Christian crowdfunding website GiveSendGo, which raised US$8.4 million.
That earlier leak showed that 56 per cent of donors to that page came from the United States and 39 per cent from Canada.
GiveSendGo said in tweet late Tuesday that it was attacked by “malicious actors” and was aggressively pursuing action for what it called a cybercrime.
The company said the attack came on Sunday evening but it would not be deterred. It said it shut down the site at the time of the intrusion to prevent “further illegal actions against our site” and had conducted further security audits before being able to bring it back online.
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