Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects - The Verge

Open source developer Marak Squires appears to have intentionally pushed corrupt updates to two of his libraries on npm and GitHub. Since these libraries are so widely-used a number of projects were brought down as a result.

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