I would also hope for and expect this to be communicated ASAP from the NPM org to its users.
@seldo, I understand that you don't want to disseminate misleading info, but an abundance of caution seems warranted in this case as my understanding of the incident lines up with what @yashap has said. If we're wrong, straighten us out --- if we're not, please sound an advisory, because this is major.
Yeah, these were some core, widely used packages that were deleted. If they were temporarily hijacked, lots of dev machines (including mine) may have been compromised. There’s a major security risk here, if there was any hijacking now is not the timing for information hiding and PR.
@seldo, I understand that you don't want to disseminate misleading info, but an abundance of caution seems warranted in this case as my understanding of the incident lines up with what @yashap has said. If we're wrong, straighten us out --- if we're not, please sound an advisory, because this is major.