On Wednesday, 21 October 2026, CBC published an exclusive: more than 1.5 million tips sent to Canadian Crime Stoppers programmes, over about 25 years, were caught in the data leak announced in March. A journalistic investigation, not a sentence. We do not reproduce the tips.

CBC: at least half of those Canadian records held personal information — addresses, phones, emails, plates, sometimes banking details tied to rewards. Over 4,300 tips, under one percent, appeared to carry callers’ full names. Those figures are CBC’s, not an RCMP tally.

The data were taken, in March, from P3 Global Intel, the tip platform used by Crime Stoppers and owned by Navigate360. The group Internet Yiff Machine claimed the theft. A copy reached journalists through Distributed Denial of Secrets. CBC says it will destroy its copy. Navigate360 did not answer CBC.

The Canadian Crime Stoppers Association, through president David J. Forster: it recognises the concern; it awaits a detailed report from Navigate360; it does not comment on CBC’s exact figures. Notifying people, CCSA says, could expose them further, because the records do not clearly separate tipsters from people named in tips. 68 chapters registered, according to the Canada Revenue Agency.

RCMP, to CBC: at the leak it was told Canadian data were not affected; in May 2026, that Canadian data were included but without PII of those who reported; it is now working with CCSA on the scope. Three clocks. RCMP: the breach may endanger tipsters, people named and officers; it has received no reports of threats from the breach.

Hamilton Police said on 17 June it had been told of a Navigate360/P3 compromise; the system sits outside the police network. That confirms the March incident, not the 1.5 million figure. Dump CBC. The rewrite rests on CBC and the Hamilton Police note.

Image: Parliament Hill, Ottawa, 7 May 2010, David Samuel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. Parliament Hill, not the Crime Stoppers database.

Sources consulted: Hamilton Police Made Aware of Crime Stoppers Breach.