How to receive breach notifications from Firefox Monitor

See in this article how you can receive notifications of any email breaches from Mozilla Firefox Monitor.

The Mozilla company brought in 2018 the Firefox Monitor, an online e-mail detection service.

What is Firefox Monitor?
Firefox Monitor is a service provided by Mozilla, in conjunction with “Have I Been Pwned", To monitor whether your data has been exposed to an online data breach.

Η Firefox Monitor service Mozilla receives your email address and scans it in a library of known data breaches to see if you have been affected. A scan from Firefox Monitor will look for public data breaches dating back to 2007.

Likewise, even if your email has not been compromised, you can sign up to receive notification in the event of a future violation of your email address. Best of all, you do not need to use the Firefox browser to take advantage of the Firefox Monitor.

How to use Firefox Monitor
Getting started with Firefox Monitor is a simple process. Just visit him Firefox Monitor website . You will receive an invitation to check an email address for known data breaches. Go ahead and enter an email address and press the "Check for violations" button. The whole process can be done in any browser, with any email address.

Once you submit an email address, you will quickly receive results showing how many, if any, data breaches there are for your address.

Now, if you want to be notified immediately of a future breach, click the "Notify me of new breach" button and you will be prompted to sign in to a Firefox account. Note that you do not need to use Firefox to sign up for a Firefox account.

However, you will need a Firefox account if you want to sign up for ongoing monitoring and alerts. The site will guide you in creating such an account.

Of course, you will first need to confirm that the email exists and secondly that you manage it. You must enter 6 digits which will be sent to your email.

After logging in, you will be taken to a breach summary which will tell you how many data breaches he has been associated with e-mail. This page will also confirm how many emails are being actively monitored for future data breaches.

You will also receive a relevant report via your email.

You're done. If the email address you entered is trapped in a data breach, you will be notified immediately. Keep in mind, however, that it may take time to detect, verify, and add data breaches to public databases. So there may be a time lag between when the actual breach occurred and when Firefox Monitor will notify you.

Abolition s from Firefox Monitor
If you decide you no longer want to join Firefox Monitor, unsubscribing is a fairly simple process. To do this, you must visit the Firefox Monitor website and sign in to your Firefox account.

Once you're logged in, you'll see it of your profile in the far right corner of the screen. Click on your profile icon and you will see a drop down menu. From the drop-down menu, click “Preferences” to open the settings for Firefox Monitor.

At the bottom of the page, you will see an option to “Remove Firefox Monitor” that will allow you to opt out of any future emails from Firefox Monitor.

Once you click the "Remove Firefox Monitor" button, you will be prompted to confirm the selection. Once you do, you will be logged out and returned to the Firefox Monitor homepage. Your Firefox account will remain active and you can login at any time.

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