Onerep is a privacy monitoring service/ privacy provider that Mozilla partnered with for their Mozilla Monitor service.
Yesterday, Brian Krebs (a cybersecurity journalist) dug into Onerep and found that the CEO is a shady Belarussian. Dimitri Shelest, CEO, of Onerep owns multiple “people searching” websites. Shelest has also been linked to aggressive spam and affiliate marketing emails.
Onerep’s reputation is shady due to their CEO’s multiple conflicts of interest. At worst, Onerep is sucking your personal information. At best, you’re paying for a service that doesn’t do anything. Either way, I would not trust Mozilla Monitor service .
This is a copy and paste from a post I made to firefox@lemmy.ml. I do not no know how to crosspost and I apologise for my mistake a head of time.
It’s like a twisted mustache twirling disney villanesque version of data leak conspiracies. Only way I can think of for this to be funnier is if it turns out the dude also had a prominent position in some secret police state agency.
It does sound like a conspiracy and I am advocating to wait until Mozilla addresses the concern. In my opinion, it’s likely an oversight and failure to do their due diligence.
That’s a pretty damn big “oversight” for a company claiming to have privacy as one of their main selling points…
Maybe they’re so good at erasing online data that when they got to choosing a CEO, they couldn’t find any info on this dude being shady online.
I agree and I am going to give them benefit of doubt until they issue a statement or address it.