The Mozilla Foundation has announced the release of Firefox Monitor. This is a free service, tested since the summer, that informs Firefox users (and not only) if their data has been leaked on the internet.network. 
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 it by clicking here by Troy Hunt, Have I Been Pwned. Users simply provide their email addresses to Firefox Monitor and the new service will search the email with a list of existing data breaches. 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 to data breaches in a timely manner, giving them the opportunity to take proactive measures to stop further surprises, with a change of passwords but also the activation of 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 make a complete tool available better safetys and protectionof end-user privacy this fall, and the Firefox Monitor service appears to be the first to launch.
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