Toronto Crime Stoppers pauses all tip intake, saying 176,859 Toronto tips from January 2022 to November 2025 were in data stolen in March from P3, the tip software it has used since 2018
Toronto Crime Stoppers said in a statement dated 21 October 2026, on behalf of chair Sean Sportun, that it is pausing its program effective immediately: it has removed the Tip Submit feature from its website, advised its vendor Navigate360/P3 to suspend intake for Toronto Crime Stoppers, and directed Canada's National Anonymous Call Centre to stop accepting or processing new information meant for it. Toronto Crime Stoppers says hackers stole data in March from P3, the tip software it has used since 2018, which is owned by Navigate360. It says Navigate360 told it that 176,859 Toronto tips, dating from January 2022 to November 2025, were in the stolen data and that Navigate360 has found 14,973 names in those tips, without saying whether the names belong to tipsters, people named in tips, or both; its timeline says Navigate360 told it on 6 July that 12,392 of those tips 'potentially' contained personal information. Toronto Crime Stoppers says some original tips containing potentially identifying information were stolen, that Navigate360 has not given it the text of the stolen tips despite numerous requests through its legal counsel, and that Navigate360 told it in April that Toronto's data had not been taken before saying on 9 June that it was affected. It asks people not to send tips by phone, online or through the app until it has a safer way to protect them, and to call 911 if someone is in danger. The Record reported Toronto's pause on 22 October, saying it came hours after Canada's CBC reported that more than 1.5 million tips from Crime Stoppers chapters across the country were exposed in the breach; according to The Record, about half of the 1.5 million leaked tips CBC studied, some dating back 25 years, contained personal information, and CBC reporters reviewed hacked data made available to them in March by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). The Record says a hacktivist collective known as Internet Yiff Machine claimed responsibility for the March breach. Source: Toronto Crime Stoppers statement (21 Oct 2026); The Record (22 Oct), including its account of CBC's reporting.
- Product
- P3 tip-management platform (Navigate360 / P3 Global Intel), used by Crime Stoppers programs
- Versions
- n/a — data theft from a hosted tip platform in March 2026; Toronto tips dated January 2022 to November 2025 affected (Toronto Crime Stoppers)
- Exploited in Australia?
- unknown
- Patch to
- Tipsters: Toronto Crime Stoppers says it will never contact you first to ask for your tip number or password; treat any such approach as a scam. Operators of anonymous tip lines and whistleblower platforms: strip identifying details at intake rather than only before release, keep raw submissions no longer than needed, and require vendors to notify you promptly and give you the affected records so you can assess risk to the people involved.
Primary: Toronto Crime Stoppers — Statement from Toronto Crime Stoppers on the P3 data breach (21 Oct 2026; PDF with timeline) · The Record — Toronto crime tips org freezes operations after details of data breach come to light (22 Oct 2026)