Mozilla Rebrands Personal Information Monitoring Service, Adds Paid Tier

Mozilla has renamed its free personal information monitoring service to Mozilla Monitor, and it’s launching a paid subscription tier called Monitor Plus that will take the next step by automatically removing any personal data that’s been exposed in online breaches.

Monitor Plus costs $13.99 per month in the U.S., but if you subscribe annually, it’s just $8.99 per month ($107.88 for the year). The free tier, Mozilla Monitor—previously called Firefox Monitor—is still available. Both are U.S. only for now.

“When we launched Monitor, our goal was to help people discover where their personal info may have been exposed,” Mozilla product manager Tony Amaral-Cinotto says. “Now, with Monitor Plus, we’ll help people take back their exposed data from data broker sites that are trying to sell it. Our long-standing commitment to put people’s needs first and our easy step-by-step process makes Monitor Plus unique. Additionally, we combine breach alerts and data broker removal to offer an all-in-one protection tool and make it easier for people to feel and be safe online.”

To see if any of your personal data has leaked online, you can use the free Mozilla Monitor service: Just enter the email address for an online account, sign in to your Mozilla account, and hope for the best. (If you don’t have a Mozilla account, you will need to sign up and provide your first and last name, the current city and state that you live in, and your date of birth, all of which will be encrypted and follow Mozilla’s privacy policy.) Since I just went through an account cleanse process, I didn’t see any issues in my results.

But if you do see that any of your personal information has leaked online, Mozilla Monitor will display that and offer you the Monitor Plus subscription, which will help automate the process of resolving those issues, including stepping you through each service’s password change procedures as required.

With its Firefox web browser slowly circling the drain, Mozilla is pivoting to a broader family of products and offerings. In addition to the web browsers on various platforms, Mozilla Monitor, and Monitor Plus, the organization also provides Mozilla VPN, Pocket (a read-later service with free and paid tiers that I use and recommend), Firefox Relay (for creating anonymous email masks), and the MDN web developer documentation service (with free and paid tiers).