A hacker operating under the alias “Internet Yiff Machine” has claimed responsibility for breaking into P3 Global Intel, a tip intelligence platform operated by US safety company Navigate360, allegedly exfiltrating 93 gigabytes of data containing more than 8 million confidential law enforcement tips. Navigate360 describes itself as the leading provider of tips and leads solutions for law enforcement, federal agencies, the military, and school safety initiatives. The FBI declined to comment, while Navigate360 stated it was working to determine whether a network incident had occurred and had engaged a third party to investigate.
The hacker claimed to have gained initial access by taking over a P3 customer account through social engineering, then exploiting a vulnerability to extract the data. While the claims could not be independently verified at the time of reporting, the outlet that first broke the story, Straight Arrow News, said it had confirmed the authenticity of some of the stolen records by directly contacting individuals whose details appeared in the dataset.
Transparency website Distributed Denial of Secrets, which archives material from hacks and leaks, confirmed it had received a copy of the data and intended to make it available to established journalists and researchers. The site’s founder remarked that the data shed considerable light on a tip-collection system that she characterised as one designed to turn ordinary members of the public into informants — raising significant concerns about the privacy and safety of those who had submitted confidential tips in good faith.