The Mozilla Foundation has announced the release of Firefox Monitor. This is a free service, which has been in testing since the summer and notifies Firefox users (and more) if their data has been leaked on Internet. 
Firefox Monitor is the product of a collaboration with Troy Hunt, the creator of 'Have I Been Pwned,' and uses the site's API to work.
The way the "new" service works will be familiar to anyone who has used the Troy Hunt website, Have I Been Pwned. Users simply enter their email addresses into Firefox Monitor and the new service will search for email with a list of existing data breaches. In case he discovers something he will inform the interested party about whether his data is circulating on the internet. 
The purpose of Firefox Monitor is to allow users to respond to data breaches in a timely manner, giving them the opportunity to take preventive measures to stop further surprises, with a change of passwords and the activation of control two-factor authentication (2FA).
Although Firefox Monitor doesn't do much more than the 'Have I Been Pwned' page does, it makes the tool available to a much larger audience. Firefox is already installed on hundreds of millions of computers, and too many of the users who use the Mozilla Foundation's browser have no idea whether their data is freely circulating on the Internet.
The Mozilla Foundation has promised to provide a complete security tool and protectionof end-user privacy this fall, and the Firefox Monitor service appears to be the first to launch.
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