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1208 points jamesberthoty | 5 comments | | HN request time: 2.289s | source
1. redbell ◴[] No.45261876[source]
Related (7 days ago):

NPM debug and chalk packages compromised (1366 points, 754 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657

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2. xrisk ◴[] No.45262033[source]
Seems to be a separate incident?
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3. nine_k ◴[] No.45262336[source]
Separate? Yes. Unrelated? Hard to tell.
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4. flanbiscuit ◴[] No.45263493[source]
Related in that this is another, separate, attack on npm.

No direct relation to the specific attack on debug/chalk/error-ex/etc that happened 7 days ago.

The article states that this is the same attackers that got control of the "nx" packages on August 27th, which didn't really get a lot of traction on HN when it happened: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

5. junon ◴[] No.45264702{3}[source]
It's unrelated in every observable technical way, but related in that it's a bit crazy how often this is happening to npm lately.

I'm glad it wasn't this particular attack that hit me last week.