In March 2016 Azer Koçulu unpublished kik and 272 other npm packages including left-pad, disrupting many thousands of projects for about 2.5 hours.

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"In March 2016 Azer Koçulu unpublished kik and 272 other npm packages including left-pad, disrupting many thousands of projects for about 2.5 hours."

npm's incident report establishes the package removals, widespread breakage, and roughly 2.5-hour disruption; the disruptive protest action was unpublishing rather than malicious code inserted into left-pad.

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Source title kik, left-pad, and npm

Source authors npm

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance mid