“But on March 21, Shelest released a lengthy statement wherein he admitted to maintaining an ownership stake in Nuwber, a consumer data broker he founded in 2015”
Mozilla bundled Onerep into Firefox to pull users off people-search sites. Its CEO still owns Nuwber, a people-search site. His defence is that running the brokers gave Onerep “the best tech and team in the space.” Mozilla says customer data was never at risk and is still working out a transition plan. The vetting happened after Krebs published, not before.