Mozilla bakes ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox’s new privacy tool
By Bryan Clark
Mozilla today announced an exciting new feature coming to future versions of Firefox. The feature is a proposed security tool that uses Troy Hunt’s ‘Have I Been Pwned‘ (HIBP) database to scour the web looking for accounts included in known data breaches. We first learned of a similar feature last November, when Mozilla announced it would be alerting users when their accounts were breached by pulling from the freely accessible breach API on HIBP. This feature was merely a notification system that alerted users when they visited a breached site. Now, Mozilla is packing the full power of Hunt’s HIBP…
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June 25, 2018 at 11:22PM
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