The Mozilla Foundation has announced the release of Firefox Monitor. It's a free service that's been in testing since the summer and lets Firefox users (and more) know if they've been leaked data them on the 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 Troy Hunt's website, Have I Been Pwned. Users simply provide email addresses post officey them in Firefox Monitor and the new service will search the email with a list of existing violations data. In case it discovers something, it will inform the interested party about whether their data is circulating on the internet. 
The purpose of Firefox Monitor is to allow users to respond in a timely manner to data breaches, giving them the opportunity to take precautions to stop further surprises with a change of passwords and activation of 2FA authentication.
Although Firefox Monitor doesn't do much more than the 'Have I Been Pwned' page does, it does tool 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 make a complete tool available better safetyand end-user privacy this fall, and the Firefox Monitor service appears to be the first to launch.
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