Toronto Crime Stoppers freezes operations after tip-data breach details emerge
Original title: Toronto crime tips org freezes operations after details of data breach come to light
Navigate360 told the chapter 176,859 Toronto tips from 2022 to 2025 were taken, including 14,973 names of unclear role.
Toronto Crime Stoppers paused tip intake late Wednesday after CBC reported that more than 1.5 million tips from Canadian Crime Stoppers chapters were exposed. CBC reviewed data Distributed Denial of Secrets made available in March and contacted more than a dozen tipsters; about half the tips it studied contained personal information. The Toronto chapter said Navigate360 and subsidiary P3 Global Intel had given incomplete accounts, and it ordered both the vendor and Canada’s National Anonymous Call Centre to stop processing Toronto tips.
Unconfirmed: Internet Yiff Machine’s claim of responsibility is uncorroborated, and Navigate360 has not said whether the 14,973 names are tipsters or suspects.
- Navigate360 said 176,859 Toronto tips from January 2022 to November 2025 were stolen.
- The vendor found 14,973 names but could not say if they were tipsters, suspects, or both.
- In April the vendor said Toronto data was not taken; in June it said it was affected.
- Internet Yiff Machine claimed the March breach to discredit Navigate360 and P3 Global Intel.
- Toronto asked the public not to send tips by phone, online, or app.
Impact: More than 1.5 million crime tips, some with personal data, were exposed.
- 1.Do not send tips to Toronto Crime Stoppers by phone, online, or app until a safer system exists.
- Vendors
- Navigate360
- Products
- P3 Global Intel
- Threat actors
- Internet Yiff Machine
- Organizations
- Distributed Denial of Secrets
- Countries
- Canada
From the original article
3 min read at therecord.mediaLate Wednesday night the Toronto chapter of Crime Stoppers broke ranks with the national association, revealing a timeline showing what it knew and when along with an announcement that it will pause operations.
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