Overview
- A CBC investigation published Oct. 21 found more than 1.5 million tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers over 25 years were exposed in a breach, and about 850,000 of those entries included personally identifiable information.
- Toronto Crime Stoppers removed its online tip form and paused accepting tips after the CBC report, saying it will not resume intake until it can guarantee anonymity and safer collection methods.
- The Toronto Police Service has temporarily suspended using Crime Stoppers and is directing people to contact police directly while it reviews the program’s safeguards.
- Navigate360, which owns the P3 platform that was hacked in March, told chapters that roughly 176,859 Toronto tips from Jan. 2022 to Nov. 2025 were taken and that about 14,973 names appeared in those records.
- Investigations and reviews are ongoing as reporters and researchers probe the leaked dataset and chapters press Navigate360 for full disclosure, with urgent questions about poor redaction, long data retention and how exposed information could endanger tipsters and others named in reports.