Mozilla has released Firefox 70 which comes with many security and privacy features such as Enhanced Tracking Protection (blocking third-party tracking cookies, fingerprinting and browser-based cryptominers ).
In this post, we will look into a privacy focused thing called Firefox Monitor which lets you know whether your email addresses have been leaked or breached in a hacking attack (notifies you if you have been part of a data breach). It fetches its data from HaveIBeenPwned which keeps record of all compromised account details.
Visit monitor.firefox.com and type your email address which will be scanned against a database that serves as a library of data breaches. After the complete scan, it will show you the results. If you find out where your email was compromised, you change your password immediately.
If you want alert about new breaches then you have to sign-up or you can login using your Firefox account. (Thinking about how they are handling your email address ?? Read here)
After signing up, you will see your dashboard and what I see is that my secondary email address has been compromised two times.
Tapping on “More about this breach” will give you additional details, the most important thing is that you have to sign into these accounts now and either change the password or delete the account completely. (Let’s hope the number of compromised accounts is less or it can get quite boring)
You can include other email addresses you need to monitor. There doesn’t appear to be any limit to the number of addresses.
More information about this.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-monitor-faq
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