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by epai 2762 days ago
Tl;dr: event-stream repo was injected with an attack that crawls your dependencies trying to find “copay-dash”. It then attacks it to steal all your bitcoin. The attacker was given maintenance rights to the repo by simply emailing the owner, who gave the rights freely. The owner and npm didn’t do a background check. Because of the MIT license, the owner has no liability/responsibility for his actions.
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"Because of the MIT license" is a little misleading. Any FLOSS license out there would disclaim the same sort of warranties.