While this partnership isn't new in and of itself, Firefox Monitor was launched as an independent service in 2017, the integration with the Firefox Lockwise password manager and the browser itself most certainly are. How will Firefox warn users of compromised passwords? While Firefox Monitor is essentially just a Firefox-branded gateway to the Have I Been Pwned site itself, complete with email alerts if your registered email addresses appear in new data breaches added to the database, the changes being introduced in Firefox 70 makes improving security posture something that any user can achieve without having to step outside of the browser ecosystem itself. As already mentioned, this new feature will see the integration of both Firefox Monitor and Firefox Lockwise, the browser password manager, into Firefox itself. "It's important to emphasize that this only helps to protect Firefox users against passwords leaked in data breaches that are loaded into the Have I Been Pwned database," Opdenakker advises "there are a lot of data breaches we don't know about or learn about many years later."
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