After years of using Google Chrome, I finally decided to go back to the more privacy-focused browser, Mozilla Firefox
Firefox takes privacy very seriously. You can choose from three different levels of “content blocking” that covers everything from trackers, cookies, cryptominers and fingerprint scanners.
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But Firefox has now introduced what’s called Firefox Monitor, which tells you if your email addresses have been hijacked. It extracts information from HaveIBeenPwned, which keeps track of all compromised login details.
Subscribe to Firefox Monitor
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The advantage of Firefox Monitor is that it is a “set and forget” deal. Once you’ve entered and verified your email addresses, Firefox Monitor will monitor those email addresses 24/7. As soon as one or more of these addresses appear as a result of a hack, you will receive a notification.
You need to register with Firefox Monitor with your Firefox account. If you are using the Firefox browser, you sync all browser settings with this account. But you can also add other email addresses later.
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After registering, you will see your dashboard and immediately I see with horror that my primary email address has been hacked 14 times.
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Clicking on more information about this violation will give you more information, but the bottom line is that you need to log into these accounts right now and either change your password or close the account completely.
They shouldn’t be ignored, especially if you’ve made the bad habit of using the same username and password for every account. If you give the details to one, they will have access to everything that is not good.
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So now it’s about going directly to those websites, logging in (hoping the hacker didn’t change the password) and changing the data. If you are no longer using this account, you should consider closing it completely.
A little annoying is that it doesn’t give you direct links to the affected sites or links to deactivate your account. You must enter the address yourself. If it’s just a few sites, that’s okay, but if someone has been the victim of hundreds of hacker attacks, entering each individual URL can be very tedious and very fast.
Next on the dashboard page, you can add other email addresses you want to track. There seems to be no limit to the number of addresses you can add, and Firefox Monitor is completely free. So why not add them all?
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Sometimes it takes a hacked company some time to admit what happened. Thus, Firefox Monitor can only report information that is publicly available. Therefore, it is wise to change your account passwords regularly (say every three months).
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