GoKawiilBreach of P3 Global Intel exposes 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips
A hack of the P3 Global Intel tip-management platform used by Canadian Crime Stoppers exposed more than 1.5 million tips spanning 25 years, a CBC investigation found. About 850,000 records contained personal details such as addresses, phone numbers, emails and license plates, and over 4,300 tipsters had given their full names. The data was stolen last March by a hacktivist group called Internet Yiff Machine and later shared with journalists via the nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets.
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The breach undercuts P3 Global Intel's marketing claim that its platform was anonymous and secure, a point the hackers said they set out to prove. It also raises questions about data retention practices, since cybersecurity experts cited in the report question why closed cases and decades-old tips remained stored and vulnerable. The RCMP's shifting and apparently inaccurate assurances about Canadian data suggest oversight gaps that could complicate efforts to protect tipsters whose identities may now be compromised.
- Over 1.5 million Crime Stoppers tips were exposed, with 850,000 containing personal identifying information.
- Internet Yiff Machine stole the data to challenge P3 Global Intel's claims of anonymity and security.
- RCMP statements about the breach's impact on Canadian data appear to contradict CBC's findings, and victims haven't been systematically notified.
Source: yro.slashdot.org, 2026-10-21
Published there as: “More Than 1.5 Million Canadian Crime Stoppers Tips Leaked”
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