high severity January 14, 2026 · 1 min read

Canadian Investment Regulatory Org (CIRO) 750K — January 2026

If you are a customer of Canadian Investment Regulatory Org (CIRO), here’s what’s now in circulation.

The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) disclosed a phishing-vector breach affecting ~750,000 investor records in January 2026.

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The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) disclosed a phishing-vector breach affecting ~750,000 investor records in January 2026. Investor records combined with contact details enable targeted advisor-impersonation scams.

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What You Should Do

Canadian investors: change passwords on every brokerage account
Treat unsolicited "compliance review" calls as potential vishing
Verify advisor identities through your brokerage's published number

What the free scan actually returns

Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

These listings are live, public, and legal to remove — and removing them is what we do.

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Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

verifiedvalue redacted in this samplepassword + phone · 2024telecom breach

unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

Check your exposure

Canadian Investment Regulatory Org (CIRO) is one listing. Your email is probably in others.

~750,000 accounts were exposed here. We can’t confirm any single incident against the sources we search, so we won’t pretend to — what we can show you is your own exposure: every leak and listing tied to your email, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

Report details & sourcing

Severity High contact details only, none of them permanent

Disclosed January 14, 2026

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected ~750,000

Data exposed Investor recordsContact detailsCompliance documentation

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Sources: CIRO public notice (Jan 2026)

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