Toronto Crime Stoppers pauses tips after breach

Toronto Crime Stoppers has paused phone, website and app tip submissions after learning that 176,859 Toronto tips were included in a March cyberattack on its software provider, chair Sean Sportun said. The tips were submitted between January 2022 and November 2025, and the organization says it is working on a safer way to accept information. Sportun said the provider, Navigate360, also gave the organization a list of 14,973 names found in the breach. Navigate360 has not clarified whether those names belong to tipsters, people identified in tips, or both. Toronto Crime Stoppers says it has not received the texts of the stolen tips, so it cannot determine what information they contained or assess the risk to specific people. The organization said it does not ask tipsters for their names, but some people include identifying details when describing what they witnessed. Sportun said Toronto Crime Stoppers typically removes those details before forwarding tips to investigators, but some original submissions containing potentially identifying information were stolen from the P3 platform. He said the organization was told in June that Toronto submissions were affected, after earlier...