GiveSendGo 2022 Data Breach
Financial Services / Crowdfunding
GiveSendGo 2022 Data Breach
A christian fundraising service.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
22/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Lower: limited current risk based on data value and recency.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
90KRecords
2022Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Breach Summary
In February 2022, the Christian fundraising service GiveSendGo suffered a data breach which exposed the personal data of 90k donors to the Canadian "Freedom Convoy" protest against vaccine mandates. The breach exposed names, email addresses, post codes, donation amount and comments left at the time of donation.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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90K records analyzed
About GiveSendGo
GiveSendGo is a christian fundraising service.
Why They Hold Your Data
GiveSendGo is a christian fundraising service. Services like this typically hold email addresses, names, location data, transaction history through account registration and normal operations.
Recent Developments
The GiveSendGo dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
Data Points Exposed
4 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
Geographic location
Transaction History
Breach Impact
The exposure created downstream fraud and phishing risk for those affected and drew scrutiny of GiveSendGo's data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A financial-institution breach: account, wealth or payment data supports direct fraud and highly credible financial-impersonation scams. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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