Firefox Alerts Users When Visiting Breached Sites

Mozilla has added a new feature to Firefox to alert users when they visit a website that has been part of a data breach in the past. Earlier this year, the Internet organization launched Firefox Monitor, a service to inform users if their accounts have been part of data breaches. Enjoying support for Cloudflare, the service uses data from Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) website to keep track of compromised accounts. The newly announced Firefox alert is the latest improvement Mozilla brings to Firefox Monitor and takes advantage of the very same HIBP data to warn users of breached websites. “To help users who might have otherwise missed breach news or email alerts, we are integrating alerts into Firefox that will notify users when they visit a site that has been breached in the past. This feature integrates notifications into the user’s browsing experience,” Mozilla’s Luke Crouch explains.