Mozilla has ended its partnership with privacy partner Onerep after the CEO of identity protection company Onerep admitted to having ties to data brokers.
“Onerep CEO’s outside financial interests and activities do not align with our values.”“. Although customer data was never at risk.
In February. Mozilla added the removal of data service from Onerep as part of its new.
The service allowed users to . All through Mozilla’s partnership with Onerep.
Mozilla launched the Monitor service in 2018 under the name Firefox Monitor. It verifies data from the website to let users know if email addresses or passwords were leaked in data breaches.
An in-depth report from Krebs on Security found that the Belarusian CEO of Onerep. Dimitri Shelist, .
Shelist explained that there is no exchange or sharing of information between Nuwber and Onerep. He said: My association with a people search company may seem strange.
In case I didn’t take this initial route by delving into how people search sites work, he continued. Onerep will not have the best technology in this area. I realize now that I didn’t make this more clear in the past.
Following Shelist’s statement,. “We are now working to solidify a transition plan that will provide customers with a seamless experience and continue to put their interests first,” the nonprofit said.
. or if it plans to stop the service completely.