Mon Feb 21, 2022 – 2:38 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Canadian and American media outlets including the left-wing Washington Post are under fire for using hacked information to allegedly harass individuals who donated to participants of the Freedom Convoy truckers protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Ottawa.
Reuters reports that the group Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS) got its hands on donor files from the GiveSendGo fundraising platform, obtained via what the group calls a “hack,” identifying people who donated money to the Freedom Convoy.
The hack yielded contributors’ names, email addresses, zip codes, IP addresses, and payment details. DDOS said it would offer the information to journalists and researchers, instead of publishing it themselves.
Several media outlets took DDOS up on its offer. Journalist Saagar Enjeti shared a screenshot of an email in which an unidentified Washington Post reporter asked a $40 donor, identified via “leaked data,” to “share what motivated you to contribute to this campaign”:
The Washington Post is contacting people whose donation info was leaked and who gave as little as 40 dollars to the truckers to ask them why they did so
Email provided to me by a source pic.twitter.com/qbzebYyHiP
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