Firefox Monitor

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See if you've been part of an online data breach, here:

monitor.firefox.com

[banjo]

I checked that website using an addy that I know for sure had been breached in one of the hacks but had been unable to trace the corporation responsible for the lapse. I was kind of hoping to flesh out the responsible company? In that linked Firefox website it states that the address I supplied had no record of any breaches. I began to wonder about the logic of putting any eMail addy into such a search facility even before I did it. The negative result just reinforced that suspicion. What a world we live in?
What a jolly jape to build a database of live addys?

e&oe ...

[jal]

It says mine was breached 4 times by Adobe, Dailymotion,My Heritage & malwarebytes

[banjo]

I suspected Adobe Systems may have been the culprit, but that Firefox web page gave me a clean bill. Oh well onwards and upwards. I'd like to meet one of these slime-sucking protozoans some time ...

The other website I'm referring to that flagged up my addy on a list is:

www.haveibeenpwned.com

I ploughed through the hundreds of hacked websites at that URL taking screen shots of likely candidates, but as I said it doesn't tell you which outfit(s) was/were compromised. Thinking about it- TalkTalk are probably the ones. It wouldn't surprise me. That flippin' Dido woman.

e&oe ...

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Oh well, just saw it mentioned on the Bleeping Computer site........

[banjo]

Therein lies the strength of exchanges such as this forum facilitates. I would not have heard of that site otherwise. The fact is, which one (if any) is to be relied upon? We can only be as vigilant as possible.

e&oe ...

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Last.fm reported mine, and Adobe as far as I remember.

I would have thought I would be able to trust Mozilla anyway, otherwise I wouldn't use Firefox - or Thunderbird or any other Mozilla products.