Cyber Bounty Hunter Discovers Mozilla Privacy Breach

Tech nerds developing software by day, unveiling privacy threats by night: is this the wave of the future? If the latest case of a privacy breach by Mozilla is any example then, yes, and the future is here.

Tech nerds developing software by day, unveiling privacy threats by night: is this the wave of the future? If the latest case of a privacy breach by Mozilla is any example then, yes, and the future is here.

Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser, revealed this week that it accidentally exposed 44,000 inactive user accounts belonging to addons.mozilla.org on its public server.

And how did the open source company become aware of the exposure? Through the company’s web

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