The status page at https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj says that "We apologize for the temporary una

The status page at https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj says that "We apologize for the temporary unavailability of some packages.". If this was only a matter of missing packages, this would "only" be a matter of breaking builds. But it looks like third parties were able to take over the missing packages, see https://github.com/npm/registry/issues/256 https://github.com/npm/registry/issues/256 - which is a HUGE deal, considering "npm install" blindly executes the scripts in a package's preinstall property (as well as the packaged module itself possibly containing arbitrary backdoors)