Canada's Crime Stoppers leaks more than 1.5 million anonymous tips
A breach of the external online tip platform used by Canada's Crime Stoppers exposed more than 1.5 million tips. A third party accessed the systems of Navigate360, operator of the P3 platform, and copied data, and tipsters' personal information was also exposed. Some chapters stopped accepting online tips, and several police agencies stopped using the service or cooperating with it. Privacy regulators launched related investigations.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Crime Stoppers
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- More than 1.5 million anonymous tips
- Cause / method
- A third party accessed the systems of Navigate360, operator of the external tip platform P3, and copied data
- Location
- Canada
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Timeline
- News emerged that more than 1.5 million Crime Stoppers tips in Canada had leaked.
- Ottawa police stopped using Crime Stoppers.
- Crime Stoppers programs in Saskatchewan stopped accepting tips.
- A privacy regulator launched an investigation into the service provider involved in the leak.
- Chatham-Kent police opened a separate direct tip line after ending cooperation with Crime Stoppers.
- British Columbia's privacy regulator launched an investigation into the breach of the P3 online tip system.
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- Sask. Crime Stoppers programs pause tip intake due to national data breach
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- Royal Newfoundland Constabulary reviewing partnership with Crime Stoppers after data breach
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- Police suspend use of Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers after data breach
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- B.C. privacy watchdog investigating Crime Stoppers after data breach of online tip system
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