Navigate360 breach exposes Crime Stoppers tips from its P3 platform, Canada's privacy commissioner investigates
Navigate360 P3 tip management platform (used by Crime Stoppers)
Navigate360, the US company behind the P3 tip platform used by Crime Stoppers programs, disclosed on Oct 23 2026 that an unauthorized third party was in one of its systems from Nov 21 2025 to Mar 5 2026 and copied data. It says the files may include names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, email addresses and other sensitive information. CBC News reports more than 1.5 million Canadian tips from the past 25 years were compromised, and Toronto Crime Stoppers says 176,859 of its tips were affected. On Oct 27 Canada's Privacy Commissioner opened an investigation into Navigate360.
Why this severity: Supposedly anonymous crime tips, some with identifying details, plus Social Security numbers and other personal data, stolen over more than three months
- Started
- Nov 21, 2025
Affected
Not published yet
Fixed in
No fixed release yet
Timeline4
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada opens an investigation into the safeguards Navigate360 had in place at the time of the breach.
Navigate360 publishes its Notice of Data Breach and begins notifying affected people: names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, email addresses and other sensitive data may be involved. CBC reports more than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips from its P3 tip platform were compromised, and several Crime Stoppers chapters pause tips.
Navigate360 becomes aware of suspicious activity on one of its systems and starts an investigation with a cybersecurity firm.
An unauthorized third party gets into Navigate360's internal IT environment and starts copying files; access lasts until March 5 2026.
Advisories3
- Navigate360 Notice of Data BreachNavigate360 (Business Wire) · Oct 23, 2026
- Security Breach Notification (Navigate360, LLC)Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General · Oct 23, 2026
- Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate data breach involving Crime StoppersOffice of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada · Oct 27, 2026
News & write-ups2
Notes & caveats
Navigate360 says it found the activity around Mar 18 2026, finished its file review on Oct 22 2026 and has no evidence the data was misused for fraud or identity theft. The 1.5 million figure is CBC's own analysis; Navigate360 has not published a total. Several Canadian Crime Stoppers chapters and police services paused anonymous tips. Navigate360 also sells software to US schools.
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