massive campaign for 170+ packages and 400+ malicious versions published. what we saw that not a single maintainer account compromised. tanStack and Mistral AI these are the names that stand out.

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    and then other packages like mistral were affected because they depend on tanstack so those were direct credential hijacks?

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      probably not, I haven’t seen any other post mortems but the tanstack ones were only up for 20 minutes so really low chance. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were all a similar approach and that’s why they all happened at the same time