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Andy from Lightning here. Yeah, the PyPi credentials were stolen through the compromised pl-ghost bot account. The attacker used this account to create a new actions workflow, which was ran and parsed out secrets for PyPi. After releasing the package, the attacker then used that account to troll us a bit with those comments.


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