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By «fuzzing» I mean performing modifications to passwords gained from third-party leaks and attempting the modified password on npm.
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Fuzzing included (among other attempted modifications): changing the capitalization, attempting/removing digits (and other symbols) at the end, replacing company names with `npm`, appending/prepending `@npm` (and others), and other various changes. That was quickly achievable because there were already known potential passwords matched for each account — and there were not too many of those, so even multiplying those by one or two orders of magnitude (depending on the account significance) was possible.
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Fuzzing included (among other attempted modifications): changing the capitalization, appending/removing digits (and other symbols) at the end, replacing company names with `npm`, appending/prepending `@npm` (and others), and other various changes. That was quickly achievable because there were already known potential passwords matched for each account — and there were not too many of those, so even multiplying those by one or two orders of magnitude (depending on the account significance) was possible.
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That gave me 4786 packages from 732 accounts. The top package gained that way had 10 millon downloads/month, and the total was 171 174 218 d/m.
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