Proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site Jason Wilson © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
A data breach from Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo has revealed that millions of dollars have been raised on the site for far-right causes and groups, many of whom are banned from raising funds on other platforms.
It also identifies previously anonymous high-dollar donors to far-right actors, some of whom enjoy positions of wealth, power or public responsibility.
Some of the biggest beneficiaries have been members of groups such as the Proud Boys, designated as a terrorist group in Canada, many of whose fundraising efforts were directly related to the 6 January attack on the United States Capitol.
Proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site
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Of all the cybersecurity events that had to take place virtually this year, last month’s annual conference of the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (known in the industry as ISC²) stood out for Canadians.
At that event, well-known cybersecurity leader Bonnie Butlin was given the annual Fellow of ISC² Award for her decades of work.
Bonnie Butlin.
In an interview from her Ottawa base, Butlin admitted the award, announced earlier, caught her off guard.
“It came as a real surprise. I didn’t know I had been nominated, and let alone from Sai Honig, [co-founder of the New Zealand Network for Women in Security] who’s around the world. So that was a bit of a double surprise … and for me to receive the award when I’m not actually a member myself is just a huge honour when I wasn’t even expecting at all.”