Mozilla just launched a free service called Firefox Monitor, to help users find out if their accounts are part of the numerous data breaches that occur every year.
Simply enter your email ID on website and scan it to find any instances of exposed online accounts.
For added security, you can subscribe to the service to allow you to receive notifications immediately, in case your email or password is involved in a data breach in the future.
The service is basically an external interface to Troy Hunt's Have I Pwned (HIBP) database that allows users to sign up to be notified in the event their email addresses are found to be part of a data breach.
We also mention that this service is completely safe to use. Mozilla has made sure that email addresses registered with Firefox Monitor are not shared with third parties or even with its partner HIBP.
To ensure this, Mozilla hides the user's email ID and sends only a few characters of it. HIBP matches these characters with all the entries in its database and responds to a series of compromised accounts.
Regardless of a data breach, you should always be careful about your password. Changing your password frequently, enabling 2-factor authentication, and using strong and unique passwords when creating an account will help keep your data safe.
