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Canadian Tire: Breach History & DoxxScan™ Rating

Canadian Tire has 2 publicly reported breaches in our tracker. Here is the timeline, what was exposed, and its DoxxScan™ Rating.

Canadian Tire has 2 distinct publicly reported incidents in our tracker, the most recent dated October 2025. The most serious is classified CRITICAL severity, and the incidents together account for roughly 38.3M records. Data described in the associated reports and leak-site claims as potentially involved includes Dates of birth, Email addresses and Genders. Named threat group tied to these claims: netwalker. The DoxxScan™ Rating below is an automated estimate of how exposed Canadian Tire’s customers could be if the reported claims are accurate.

57/100

Elevated doxx risk

DoxxScan™ Rating — lower means a higher likelihood that personal data tied to this company is exposed and could be used to dox or target its customers.

PARTLY UNCONFIRMED 1 of the 2 incidents behind this rating is an extortion-group listing, which Canadian Tire has not confirmed and nobody accountable has corroborated. It is weighted down accordingly.

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October 2, 2025HIGH

Canadian Tire Data Breach (2025)

Credential & Infostealer Leaks

August 1, 2020HIGH

Canadian Tire Listed by netwalker Ransomware Group

netwalker Ransomware

Data described in the claims

Across these incidents, the data described in the associated reports and threat-actor claims as potentially involved includes: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Partial credit card data, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses. These are the categories cited in the reporting/listings, not independently verified by Recent Breaches.

Steps tailored to the data types reported exposed in the incidents above.

• Change the password on that account — and anywhere you reused it — then turn on two-factor authentication (2FA).
• Freeze your credit with all three bureaus and place a fraud alert. This kind of exposure sharply raises your identity-theft risk.
• Expect targeted phishing that references this breach — be skeptical of unexpected emails asking you to log in, verify, or pay.
• Watch for scam texts and SIM-swap attempts, and avoid using SMS as your only two-factor method where you can.
• Your physical address may be circulating — remove yourself from data-broker and people-search sites to lower your doxxing risk.
• Combined with your name, your date of birth is a key identity-theft ingredient — be extra careful with security-question style prompts.
• Remove your personal information from data-broker sites so the leaked data can’t be combined against you — GalaxyWarden files those removals for you.

This profile is assembled automatically from Canadian Tire’s own tracked incident records — the incidents above, their classified severity, the data types reported exposed, and how recent each event is. Only incidents where information was reported lost count toward either rating; an outage or an advisory with no reported data loss is listed but not scored as exposure. The DoxxScan™ Rating estimates how exposed the company’s customers may be (a lower number means more exposure); the Safety Grade scores its publicly known record (higher = a cleaner known history). Neither is an audit of the company’s current security controls. See the full methodology →

The DoxxScan™ Rating is an automated, informational estimate of how exposed a company’s customers may be if the incidents on its public record are accurate, derived solely from that record — the number of incidents, how recent and severe they were, the sensitivity of the data involved, and who established the incident. Most incidents we track are unverified listings published by ransomware and extortion groups; those are accusations, not established facts, and they count for less. A lower rating indicates a higher likelihood that personal information tied to this company is circulating and could be used to dox or target individuals. It is not an audit, certification, or assessment of the company’s current security controls, and it does not represent present-day risk. It may rely on incomplete or unverified public reports and can change as new information emerges. Recent Breaches and GalaxyWarden are independent and are not affiliated with, and do not endorse, any company named here. Provided for general awareness only — not legal, financial, or security advice. How the rating is calculated →