44 000 Mozilla Passwords Leaked

Around 44 000 usernames and passwords associated with the accounts registered on Mozilla add ons websites were  made public accidentally The partial database of user accounts was mistakenly left on a Mozilla public server . Mozilla says there is nothing to panic as they were accessed by no one except a security researcher who found them .
According to a post on the Mozilla security blog, a security researcher reported the issue via Mozilla's Web bounty program, a program that encourages external, non-employee security professionals to find and submit bugs to Mozilla. In return, Mozilla pays cash ($500 to $3,000 for valid bugs) for the submissions.

Chris Lyon, Director of Infrastructure Security for Mozilla says "the issue posed minimal risk to users," because the only person, according to Mozilla's logs, who accessed the database was the security researcher who reported the problem. Lyon also reassured users that the incident did not impact any of Mozilla's infrastructure.