Data breach burns Firefox - add-on creators hit by email leak

Thousands of email addresses and encrypted passwords were exposed for nearly a month – leaving 78,000 Mozilla app developers vulnerable to hackers. It’s not yet clear whether the vulnerability has been exploited, or whether this is a data breach, Mozilla sad.

The email addresses, plus 4,000 encrypted passwords were left on a publicly available server for 30 days from June 23, leading to the concerns over a potential data breach, according to Ars Technica’s report.

Data breach burns Firefox - add-on creators hit by email leak