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Canadian Tire breach: 38,306,562 accounts exposed

In October 2025, retailer Canadian Tire was the victim of a data breach that exposed almost 42M records. The data contained 38M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses.

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What happened

In October 2025, retailer Canadian Tire was the victim of a data breach that exposed almost 42M records. The data contained 38M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. Passwords were stored as PBKDF2 hashes and for a subset of records, dates of birth and partial credit card data were also included (card type, expiry and masked card number).

In its disclosure notice , Canadian Tire advised that the incident did not impact bank account information or loyalty program data.

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  1. Primary source

    Have I Been Pwned: Canadian Tire (opens a new tab)

    Verified breach loaded into Have I Been Pwned: account count, exposed data types, and dates.

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  2. Primary source

    Canadian Tire disclosure (opens a new tab)

    The organization's own breach disclosure, as linked by Have I Been Pwned.

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    Have I Been Pwned breach API (opens a new tab)

    The breach list that supplied this entry.

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, February 25). Canadian Tire breach: 38,306,562 accounts exposed. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-canadiantire

MLA

"Canadian Tire breach: 38,306,562 accounts exposed." KEVWire, 25 Feb. 2026, kevwire.com/record/hibp-canadiantire.

Chicago

KEVWire. "Canadian Tire breach: 38,306,562 accounts exposed." Last modified February 25, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-canadiantire.

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Canadian Tire breach: 38,306,562 accounts exposed (Feb 25, 2026).
In October 2025, retailer Canadian Tire was the victim of a data breach that exposed almost 42M records. The data contained 38M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. Passwords were stored as PBKDF2 hashes and for a subset of records, dates of birth and partial credit card data were also included (card type, expiry and masked card number). In its disclosure notice , Canadian Tire advised that the incident did not impact bank account information or loyalty program data.
Sources:
Have I Been Pwned: Canadian Tire: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/CanadianTire
Canadian Tire disclosure: https://corp.canadiantire.ca/English/Cyber-Incident/default.aspx
Have I Been Pwned breach API: https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v3/breaches
Record ID: hibp-canadiantire.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
About this data

This record was ingested from a data source. Retrieved: Oct 26, 2026, 21:25 UTC. Ingestion is not an independent editorial investigation.

Verified by Have I Been Pwned. Breach date: 2025-10-02; loaded 2026-02-25. Exposed data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Partial credit card data, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses. Counts are accounts in the loaded data, not necessarily distinct people.

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