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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.

Firefox Monitor

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @08:41PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @08:41PM (#740452)

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
    And then THAT "registry" gets hacked. Like the do-not-call-list. Insert next joke.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday September 26 2018, @11:20PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 26 2018, @11:20PM (#740509) Journal

    And, wait! that's not all!
    We'll be throwing in the deal the pwnage of all your accounts via the hacked registry service! Free of charge!!
    That's right, all you have to do is the register all your accounts and you'll get a life lesson for free, no strings attached.

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