Hacker says they compromised millions of confidential police tips held by US company

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Source: Reuters

A hacker says they have broken into a U.S. platform for searching law enforcement hotline messages ​and compromised more than 8 million confidential tips.

In ‌a statement posted online, the hacker - who used the name "Internet Yiff Machine" - said they had broken into tip intelligence platform P3 Global Intel, ​an arm of safety company Navigate360, and stolen 93 ​gigabytes of data.

The FBI did not immediately respond to ⁠a request for comment. P3 did not respond to repeated ​comment requests. On its website, Navigate360 described itself as the "leading ​provider of innovative tips and leads solutions" for law enforcement, federal agencies, the military, and school safety initiatives. Yiff Machine, in their statement, opens new tab, used a ​profane anti-police slogan and warned the public, "Don't do the dirty ​work for the pigs."

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Reuters could not immediately verify Yiff Machine's claims, but the website Straight Arrow News, which first reported the ​breach, opens new tab, said it ​had corroborated ⁠the authenticity of some of the material by contacting tipsters whose details appeared in the ​data. The transparency website Distributed Denial of Secrets - ​which archives ⁠material from hacks and leaks - said it too had received a copy of the data, opens new tab and would make it available to "established journalists ⁠and ​researchers."

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/hacker-says-they-compromised-millions-confidential-police-tips-held-by-us-2026-03-18/

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Would like to know if AI had anything to do with this, whether the platform had used faulty AI-generated code.

[LearnedHand]

1. Not saying this isn't serious

But 93GB is not a huge trove of data, and it’s an odd number that seems out of character for “big” hacks. This is less than 1/5 the capacity of a standard internal hard drive. It’s sort of not reflective of a crucial, active database, where you’re more likely to hear about hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes being exfiltrated. That having been said, the importance of the content may not be reflected in the size of the data.