The Portland Police Bureau in Oregon is urging the public to temporarily avoid submitting information through Crime Stoppers after a data breach first reported by Straight Arrow News exposed millions of “anonymous” crime tips.
The breach included more than 8.3 million highly sensitive records stolen from the tip and intelligence management company P3 Global Intel.
P3 enables the public to submit crime tips over the phone, online and through its app to hundreds of Crime Stoppers programs, local and federal law enforcement, more than 30,000 schools and the U.S. military…