Canadian Tire data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the October 2025 breach of Canadian Tire. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Canadian Tire data breach exposed 38,306,562 accounts from canadiantire.ca in October 2025. The data taken includes passwords, partial credit card data, dates of birth and names and 4 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 25 Feb 2026, 5 months later. It is the 55th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Canadian Tire’s breach included 8 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Partial credit card data | Not enough to spend, but enough to make a fake call from your bank convincing. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Physical addresses | Used to prove who you are, and for scam letters and parcels. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Canadian Tire among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Canadian Tire password.If the account still exists, sign in at Canadian Tire (canadiantire.ca) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention Canadian Tire.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
- Freeze your credit.In the US, free at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. In Australia, ask Equifax, Experian and illion for a ban. No one can open credit in your name while it’s on.
- Watch your statements.Report anything you don’t recognise to your bank, and ask for a new card if full card numbers leaked.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 5 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- EatStreet, May 2019, 6.4 million accounts
- Hot Topic, October 2024, 57 million accounts
- Neiman Marcus, April 2024, 31 million accounts
- SurveyLama, February 2024, 4.4 million accounts
- Tangerine, February 2024, 243,462 accounts
- Eye4Fraud, January 2023, 16 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Canadian Tire”, Have I Been Pwned, added 25 Feb 2026. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- canadiantire.ca, Canadian Tire’s website