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NPM package FakerJS with millions of weekly downloads hacked

• politelemon 5y ago
  Faker was a package to generate fake data. For example you could do "faker.internet.email()" and it would generate some email address to use. From the package's original description > faker.js - generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js http://web.archive.org/web/20211208113955/https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker http://web.archive.org/web/20211208113955/https://www.npmjs.... It appears the git history has been overwritten entirely. https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/commits/master https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/commits/master
• ice_cold_etoh 5y ago
  I don't think it is hacked, but erased by the author deliberately.
• yushie08 5y ago
  It is NOT hacked. It is intentionally deleted by the author.