Ontario court freezes access to funds raised for protest convoy on GiveSendGo platform · Convoy protest could change the way money is monitored, says watchdog agency · Some domestic donors may have chosen to cite a foreign location when they donated.

Although Canadians gave more money ... to the convoy protest made through the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo came from the United States, an analysis of hacked data from the site reveals. The data — hacked illegally and released publicly late Sunday evening — sheds light on the identity of thousands of donors to the ...

CBC News has matched at least two ... identified as apparent donors to GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding site used to support the weeks-long occupation in Ottawa. The OPP said it has launched an investigation into alleged officer donations to the convoy, but won't divulge how many ...

More than half of the donors to the GiveSendGo convoy protest crowdfunding campaign who have not yet received refunds are Americans, CBC News has learned.

The online fundraising campaign was initially hosted on the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, but donors were redirected to the lesser-known GiveSendGo after GoFundMe said it would stop payments to the organizers of Freedom Convoy 2022, citing a violation of its rules on violence and harassment.

The data — hacked illegally and ... of donors to the crowdfunding campaign. A check by CBC News found multiple names in the hacked data correspond to names, dates and donation amounts collected independently by CBC News as the donations rolled in to GiveSendGo. The Christian fundraising site was blocked by PayPal last year after it was used to raise money for people at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot in Washington. CBC InvestigatesHacked convoy data shows ...

American crowdfunding site GiveSendGo is defending its decision to host a fundraiser for the Ottawa convoy protest, telling a parliamentary committee Thursday that the Canadian government never asked it to stop.

This GIF breaks down the $24 million ... website GiveSendGo. (CBC) Most of the money in escrow stems from Tamara Lich, the convoy leader who had access to the majority of the money through her role in organizing the protest, for which she has since been charged. The crowdfunding efforts she led raised nearly $10.1 million from 120,000 donors before donations ...

The largest single donation to the convoy protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates came from a prominent London, Ont., businessman who says the government has gone too far in its response to the protest movement against pandemic mandates. Hacked data from the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo shows Holden Rhodes and his wife, Carey, gave $25,000 US, which tops any other single donation from Ontario, although another donor ...

Saskatchewan residents donated ... website GiveSendGo to help fuel the Freedom Convoy protest, according to hacked data from the fundraiser. The vast majority of the donations were small sums, similar to the trend across the country. The data, which was hacked illegally and then released publicly on Sunday, sheds light on the identity of thousands of donors to the ...

February 17, 2022 - On Sunday evening, unidentified ... website GiveSendGo, which hosted a fundraising campaign for the so-called “freedom convoy” protests after GoFundMe cancelled a similar campaign in response to reports of violence. The hackers, whose identity Canada’s National Observer has not confirmed, released what appears to be a list of more than 92,000 donors to the GiveSendGo ...

GiveSendGo accepted donations from Feb. 1 to 10 before hackers illegally targeted the site and leaked donor data online. The hackers did not steal any donations. The leaked data contains donors’ full names, email addresses, postal codes, donation amounts, methods of payment and personal comments. It does not contain credit card information. Based on the postal codes, we are able to map where convoy ...

Convoy organizers quickly set up a campaign on Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo, after donors initially raised more than $10 million through the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe.

In fact, GoFundMe's testimony before ... cent of donors were from Canada — meaning about $1.2 million of the roughly $10 million raised came from outside the country. That not only validated our findings, but in fact, exceeded what our initial story found to be the potential scale of foreign donations. A later, separate CBC News story analyzed donation data that had been hacked and posted online from another online fundraiser, GiveSendGo...

Although Canadians gave more money ... to the convoy protest made through the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo came from the United States, an analysis of hacked data from the site reveals. The data — hacked illegally and released publicly late Sunday evening — sheds light on the identity of thousands of donors to the ...

Several other countries have adopted laws to govern how crowdfunding platforms can be used to raise money for causes, officials from the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe told members of a parliamentary committee Thursday.

February 11, 2022 - Seven of the top 10 donations listed on a fundraiser for the convoy occupying Ottawa and blockading some national border crossings are anonymous, as is the largest donation, at US$215,000, according to the fundraising website.

The crowdfunding site GiveSendGo became the biggest fundraising site for the protest convoy after GoFundMe shut down a previous campaign. The site was illegally hacked and the donor data was made public on Sunday evening.

February 14, 2022 - GiveSendGo became the crowdfunding platform of choice for supporters of the "Freedom Convoy" movement following the cancellation of a $10 million fundraiser on GoFundMe, which said it would be refunding donors.

1 with the GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign for the convoy protest found over 3,100 people who contributed to both campaigns, based on identical combinations of names and postal codes. The lion's share of convoy donors' leadership campaign donations went to Pierre Poilievre's campaign.