Alleged Crime Stoppers informant breach compromises over 8.3M records

Texas-based anonymous crime tip firm P3 Global Intel allegedly had more than 8.3 million records from the Crime Stoppers program spanning from February 1987 to November 2025 stolen by THE INTERNET YIFF MACHINE hacking group, reports Straight Arrow News.

Included in the massive data trove claimed by hackers were tips, user account information, and customer support requests, as well as a confidential internal page that allows P3 Global Intel customers to seek tipsters' IP addresses for covert tracking, contrary to P3's claims touting the anonymity of tipsters' information "at all times."

Such data breach has been regarded by DDoSecrets as the sequel to 2020's BlueLeaks data exposure that involved intelligence files stolen by the Anonymous hacking collective from a firm working with Fusion Centers. Many Fusion Centers were noted to have entered deals with P3.

"For years, we've warned about the problems with Fusion Centers and with privatizing these systems: the endless retention (even of submissions that are disregarded), the largely unregulated information sharing, and the failures to actually protect the identities of both alleged victims and perpetrators," said DDoSecrets co-founder Emma Best.