Liberty Counsel has been hacked, revealing seven years worth of donor records
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Liberty Counsel, an evangelical Christian nonprofit providing a brief cited by the Supreme Court in its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, has been hacked, leaking a 25-gigabyte internal database, having nearly seven years’ worth of donor records.
The hacker identified with the Anonymous movement has released the data on the hacktivist site Enlace Hacktivista, and the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets is being provided to the journalists requesting for access.
The threat actor writes in a press release that noticing a worrying trend of far-right and anti-abortion activists lining up themselves with the evangelical Christian movement, hiding their funding sources behind laws that lets church ministries keep their donations secret.
The hacker further writes that they decided to bring about some necessary radical transparency.
The hacked data comprises content from Liberty Counsel’s website, emails the group sends to its supporters, and documentation of about $12 million in donations from some 44,000 donors since 2015, The Intercept_ reports.
Limited to those tracked on Liberty Counsel’s digital platform, these donations represent only a portion of those the organization receives.
The records indicate that 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations operated by Liberty Counsel encourage supporters for voting former President Donald Trump regardless of the IRS rules forbidding such entities from directly or indirectly endorsing candidates for political office.
