🚨Over a million Canadians are at risk after providing confidential information to police against criminals, gangs, and organized crime.
🚨New Investigation Today: Canadians’ information and police intelligence still being sent to the USA via the same hacked system.
For 25 years Canadian police and Crime Stoppers trusted U.S. companies without verification and sent Canadian police intelligence, crime tips, and the personal information of confidential sources to private companies in the United States.
Now that data is in the wild. Yet Crime Stoppers operations across Canada are still directing people to submit new tips through the same system – despite promising to pause the operation.
More than 1.5 million tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers programs were exposed in a massive hack of the U.S.-based Navigate360 and P3 Global Intel corporations that managed the data.
The Canadian tips were part of a much larger breach. About 8.3 million tips in total – 93 gigabytes – were taken from Canadian Crime Stoppers, U.S. Crime Stoppers chapters, school safety tip lines such as Safe2Tell, Sandy Hook Promise and Safe2Say, U.S. military tip systems, fusion centres, and other law enforcement agencies.
While Canadians trusted Crime Stoppers and the police with their confidential information, Navigate360 and P3 Global Intel lied about encrypting and protecting the data. The companies claimed everything was encrypted at rest and that tip communications were secure.
In reality, the tips were stored and retrieved in plaintext. Unique tip IDs and passwords were kept in the clear, and basic protections such as sign-in rate limiting were missing.
It was pure fraud about a system trusted with decades of confidential intelligence. Navigate360 and P3 were professionals who knew exactly what they were doing. They marketed encryption and data security for years while holding decades of confidential intelligence in the clear.
Let’s call it what it is: fraud, deception – and should anyone be injured or killed because of it… criminal negligence.
The leaked tips cover high-profile Canadian cases, murders, drug trafficking, biker gangs (Hells Angels, Rock Machine, Outlaws, Red Scorpions), organized crime, and criminal intelligence. Nearly 49,000 tips were linked to arrests or charges. Roughly 1,000 tipsters were approved for rewards.
Canadians who came forward against dangerous criminals were promised anonymity. That promise was broken. The exposed records create real risks of retaliation, extortion, and fraud.
The failure sits with Canadian police and Crime Stoppers on two levels. First, they trusted Navigate360 and P3 Global Intel without verification. They accepted the companies’ claims of encryption and security at face value for 25 years and never confirmed the data was actually protected. Second, they sent Canadian criminal intelligence and the personal information of confidential sources to a private American company in a foreign country.
The data left Canada and sat on U.S. servers.
Now that data is out. The people who trusted the system most – those who reported gangs, traffickers, and organized crime – are the ones most exposed.
Toronto Crime Stoppers announced it has paused its program and told the public not to send tips, while Toronto Police removed its public links to the program.
Yet the online intake remains fully operational and promoted. Crime Stoppers websites across Canada, including the Ontario Association of Crime Stoppers and Toronto Crime Stoppers, still direct people to the P3 platform and describe it as secure. Neither site mentions the data breach or that tip information continues to be sent to a private company in the United States.
On October 22, 2026 this journalist submitted an online tip through the Ontario Crime Stoppers website, routed to Toronto Crime Stoppers via the P3 portal. The system returned a confirmation, file number, and password. The tip contained identifying information and a detailed fraud complaint – which ended up at the P3 system in the USA.
How much more of Canadians’ police data is being sent to the USA? Stand by for my next article.
Link to the original CBC stories in the replies.
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) October 22, 2026
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