Law Firm Cybersecurity Incident

Donors 

Individuals 

This incident affects only Canadian donors who gave to The GC in 2023 or 2024. We have directly notified donors whose information was affected by the incident at the law firm. 

The affected donor records include names, mailing addresses, gift amounts and dates in 2023 and 2024, project preferences and charitable receipt numbers. Banking information, credit card information and social insurance numbers were not compromised. You may speak with the projects you supported about the incident. To protect privacy, we cannot share information about other organizations or people. Please call us rather than email sensitive details. 

You may have received more than one notification if you were two or more of a project representative, donor or employee in 2023 or 2024. We sent a separate notice for each type of affected information. 

Questions:

• GC-Canada: donations-ca@thegc.org  or 1-855-488-7020. 

• GC-U.S.: donations-us@thegc.org  or 1-855-573-8483. 

Qualified donees, foundations and DAFs 

This incident affects only Canadian qualified donees, foundations and donor advised funds (DAFs) that gave to The GC in 2023 or 2024. We have directly notified organizations whose information was affected by the incident at the law firm. 

The affected records include publicly available information including organization names, charitable registration numbers, cities and provinces, gift amounts and dates in 2023 or 2024, and project preferences. DAF sub-fund names and fund advisor names were not compromised. To protect privacy, we cannot share information about other donors or organizations. Please call us rather than email sensitive details. 

Questions:  

• GC-Canada: donations-ca@thegc.org or 1-855-488-7020. 

• GC-U.S.: donations-us@thegc.org or 1-855-573-8483.