Toronto Crime Stoppers has paused its tips program following the exposure of roughly 1. 6 million records submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers chapters over 25 years. The records were stored on P3 Global Intel, a tip-management platform owned by Navigate360, and were stolen in a March 2026 cyberattack attributed to the group Internet Yiff Machine.
An analysis of the Canadian records found that more than 850,000 contained personally identifying information. The exposed material included names, addresses, phone numbers, personal email addresses, licence plates and banking details connected to cash rewards. More than 4,300 tips included a tipster’s full name, even though Crime Stoppers advises people not to provide identifying information.
The database contained allegations involving murder, terrorism, sexual offences, drug trafficking and organized crime. It also included references to major Canadian cases, including the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman, the disappearance of Amber Tuccaro, the Luka Magnotta investigation and the manhunt for Ryan Wedding. Notes in the records linked nearly 49,000 tips to cases cleared by arrests or criminal charges, while almost 1,000 tipsters were approved for rewards.
The breach also exposed information from people named in allegations, Crime Stoppers staff and police. The Canadian Crime Stoppers Association said protecting tipsters’ safety and anonymity was its highest priority, but said it was still working with the platform provider to determine which records and personal information were affected. It warned that notifying people could itself create risks because the available data does not reliably distinguish tipsters from people identified in tips.
The national police service said it was assessing the incident and had received no reports of threats linked to the breach. Hamilton police separately confirmed that its Crime Stoppers information was affected and said the platform operated outside police systems; the local chapter was seeking a detailed impact report while Navigate360 said additional security measures had been introduced.