Average avid internet users have tens if not hundreds of accounts requiring passwords.
As the number of data breaches each year continues to rise, people are becoming more worried about the safety of their accounts, and how internet-related crimes involving personal and financial information may affect them.
Mozilla that has been seeing this trend, wants to help its users by partnering with 'Have I Been Pwned' (HIBP) to create Firefox Monitor.
HIBP is one of the popular tool by Troy Hunt which has a database of email addresses that are known to have been compromised in data breaches. Through the partnership, Firefox can check users' email address against HIBP's database in a private way.
Mozilla tests its Firefox Monitor security tool which allows users to enter an email address to see whether that account has been included in HIBP's database, with details on sites and other sources of breaches and the types of personal data exposed in each breach.
It also offers recommendations on what affected users can do in case of data breach, and helping them to secure all accounts.
To ensure users' privacy regarding their email addresses, Mozilla also partners with Cloudflare to create a method of anonymizing data sharing for Firefox Monitor. This way, Mozilla can ensure users that it will never send full email addresses to any third party, outside of Mozilla.
Initially, the feature is tested with about 250,000 users, who are mostly in the U.S..
The idea started when a similar feature was introduced back in 2017, when Mozilla said that it would be alerting users when their accounts were breached by pulling data from the freely accessible breach API on HIBP.
