Safety company acknowledges hack seven months after breach exposed millions of crime tips

By Raphael Satter

WASHINGTON, ‌Oct 23 (Reuters) - ​Safety ​company Navigate360 on Friday 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.

Here are ​some details:

• 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.

(Reporting by Anhata ​Rooprai in Bengaluru and Raphael Satter in Washington; Editing by Vijay Kishore and Chris ‌Reese)

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