Firefox To Warn When Saved Logins are Found in Data Breaches

'Starting in Firefox 70, Mozilla aims to have the browser report when
any of your saved logins were found in data breaches. This will be
done through their partnership with the Have I Been Pwned data breach
site. From a report:

Mozilla is slowly integrating their independent Firefox Monitor
service and the new Firefox Lockwise password manager directly into
Firefox. Mozilla is also considering premium services based around
these features in the future. As part of this integration, Firefox
will scan the saved login names and passwords and see if they were
exposed in a data breach listed on Have I been Pwned. If one is found,
Firefox will alert the user and prompt them to change their password.
This new feature will only work, though, for data breaches that
exposed passwords and when the password was saved prior to an
associated data breach.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/07/17/1933231

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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