NPM package FakerJS with millions of weekly downloads hacked

Faker was a package to generate fake data. For example you could do "faker.internet.email()" and it would generate some email address to use. From the package's original description

> faker.js - generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js

http://web.archive.org/web/20211208113955/https://www.npmjs....

It appears the git history has been overwritten entirely.

https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/commits/master

I don't think it is hacked, but erased by the author deliberately.

It is NOT hacked. It is intentionally deleted by the author.