Mozilla Launches Firefox Monitor to Alert Small Businesses About Data Breaches

Mozilla recently debuted a new service called Firefox Monitor that you can use to check whether your personal information has been compromised by any of the numerous data breaches that occur every year. Data breaches strike fear into businesses of every size due to their devastating effects. According to a 2017 Kaspersky Lab report, the average cost of a data breach for a small business in North America could go as high as $117,000. This is a high price to pay, but luckily, the free Firefox Monitor service can help you stay alert to data breaches. “We’ll let you know if your email address and/or personal info was involved in a publicly known past data breach,” said Nick Nguyen, Mozilla’s VP of Firefox Product, in a blog post. “Once you know where your email address was compromised you should change your password and any other place where you’ve used that password.