Funding site linked to Canadian trucker protest hacked, donor info leaked online

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GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding website that was being used to source donations for the “Freedom Convoy” protest mounted by Canadian truckers, has been taken offline in an apparent hack and information about alleged donors leaked online.

On Sunday night, the GiveSendGo domain began to redirect to a new domain — GiveSendGone[.]wtf — and show a video loop from Disney’s Frozen, as first noted by Daily Dot journalist Mikael Thalen. The video was accompanied by text criticizing the fundraising site and linking it to the January 6th insurrection in the US.

Here is the first half of the video uploaded by hackers who targeted the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo.pic.twitter.com/uisu2xjG2U

— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) February 14, 2022

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