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Firefox will soon alert users about recently breached sites - harlan4096 - 16 November 18
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Quote:Mozilla's Firefox web browser will soon notify users when they visit websites that were breached recently.Full reading: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/15/firefox-will-soon-alert-users-about-recently-breached-sites/
The new functionality extends the capabilities of Firefox Monitor, a new service by Mozilla that anyone may use to check whether an email address is found in leaked password databases.
Mozilla integrated Firefox Monitor in Firefox 62 as a system add-on to users who run the EN-US language version of the browser after a successful test of the feature.
Quote:Since the launch of Firefox Monitor, a free service that notifies you when your email has been part of a breach, hundreds of thousands of people have signed up.
The organization announced the new functionality of Firefox Monitor and an extension to other locales today.
Firefox Monitor becomes available in 26 different languages in the near future including German, French, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Canadian English, Russian, Japanese and Portuguese.