GiveSendGo data breach: 89K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-02-15
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. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, names, purchases. The breach dates from Feb 7, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 15, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a GiveSendGo account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
Sources
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