Safety Company Acknowledges Hack 7 Months After Breach

Safety company Navigate360 on Oct. 23 acknowledged hackers had broken into one of its systems and copied months’ worth of data, seven months after a widely publicized breach exposed millions of crime tips.

In a statement, Navigate360 said names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information had potentially been exposed.

In March, a hacker calling themselves “Internet Yiff Machine” said they had broken into tip intelligence platform P3 Global Intel, an arm of Navigate360, and stolen 93 gigabytes of data, including 8 million confidential tips. At the time, Navigate360 said it was investigating “whether we have experienced an incident” and declined further comment.

In recent days, government officials in places such as Nevada and Canada have been quoted in the media as saying Navigate360 had only given them partial information about the breach despite repeated requests.

Police forces in Ontario suspended their use of the service after a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report found that hundreds of thousands of Canadian tipsters had been exposed in the breach.

Navigate360 did not immediately respond to a Reuters question seeking additional details about the hack or the timing of its announcement.