Toronto Crime Stoppers shutting down tip line ‘immediately’ after data breach

Toronto Crime Stoppers has stopped accepting information from the public through its call centre and website effective immediately. The suspension follows a data breach involving P3, the third-party software managed by Navigate360 that is used to handle tips across Canada. According to the Toronto Sun, a hacktivist group reportedly targeted the company to demonstrate security vulnerabilities in the platform.

CityNews reports that Navigate360 stated nearly 177,000 tips from Toronto, submitted between January 2022 and November 2025, were stolen in the breach, along with almost 15,000 names. Toronto Crime Stoppers chair Sean Sportun stated that while the organization does not ask for names, individuals sometimes include them in tip details. Sportun noted that Navigate360 has not clarified if the stolen names belong to the tipsters, the individuals named in the tips, or both.

The organization was reportedly told in March that the platform was secure and that Toronto data had not been taken, but they were informed in June that a breach of Toronto data had occurred.

Brief written by urgent.news from Toronto Sun, CityNews — 2 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.