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Firefox Monitor Will Let You Know When Your Accounts Have Been Compromised

posted by takyon on Wednesday September 26 2018, @07:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-email-will-not-be-stored dept.

chromas (from IRC) writes:

Firefox Monitor will let you know when your accounts have been compromised:

Data breaches have sadly become a common occurrence on the internet, as websites and cyber-criminals engage in a cat-and-mouse game. It can be tough to figure out if you're affected by these hacks though, but Mozilla’s Firefox Monitor website (h/t: XDA-Developers) seems like a handy starting point.

Enter your email address on this website and it’ll let you know if any accounts tied to that address have been affected. Whether it's LinkedIn, MySpace or some obscure forum, Firefox Monitor should alert you to compromised accounts.

If it all sounds familiar, then it's because Mozilla has teamed up with the popular Have I Been Pwned website. This website has been offering breach alerts to users for years now, so it makes sense for Mozilla to partner with them instead of building everything from scratch.

Much like Have I Been Pwned, Firefox Monitor also lets you sign up for alerts that get sent directly to your inbox. This way, you don't necessarily have to visit the website to get prompt security alerts.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @08:30PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @08:30PM (#740444)

    You pull in telemetry data from TOR browser bundle, exposing activists and journalists to torture and death, and you expect us to trust you with our email addresses... so you can sell them to Facebook, perhaps?

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @10:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @10:38PM (#740484)

    Another reason I am somewhat dubious about this, is that they seem to just (as in all they do) show you the data from Have I Been Pwned. So why would I go to Firefox Monitor, when all they offer, according to their own terms, is a "Full Report" from HIBP, Breach Alerts from FM (which HIBP provides directly with better privacy terms), and "Safety Tips: [...] occasional online safety tips from Mozilla"? Additionally, their disclosures state they provide your email to SalesForce and Amazon, subject to their privacy terms.

    So, what is the benefit again, especially when you can go to the actual source?