Navigate360 said on 23 October 2026 that hackers accessed one of its systems and copied months' worth of data, according to reports from Reuters, The Next Web, teiss and shattered.io. The company confirmed the intrusion roughly seven months after a hacker first claimed to have breached its P3 Global Intel tip platform. That claim, made in March 2026, put the stolen haul at 93 gigabytes, including 8 million confidential crime tips.

What was exposed, and what is still claimed

P3 Global Intel is described as a Navigate360 "tip intelligence platform", and the breach now ranks among the more sensitive disclosures of the year: crime tips are not ordinary customer records, because they often hold names, accusations and details people shared because they expected confidentiality. Navigate360 said potentially exposed information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information. The 93-gigabyte and 8-million-tip figures remain the hacker's claim, not a figure the company has confirmed in the reporting so far — an important distinction, because the scale of what was actually copied has not been independently verified.

Fallout for police tip lines

The disclosure is already rippling through police tip programmes. Toronto Crime Stoppers says Navigate360 provided a list of 14,973 names identified in the breach, but the list does not identify the roles or relationships of those people, and the presence of a name on it should not be taken to mean the person was an anonymous tipster. London police in Ontario have joined other police services in pausing Crime Stoppers activity following the leak. Organisations using the platform should review what data they held in it, watch for phishing impersonating breach notifications, and follow official company communications for affected individuals.