Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials

The developers are urging all developers who installed version 0.23.3 to take the following steps immediately:

1. Check your installed version:

pip show elementary-data | grep Version

2. If the version is 0.23.3, uninstall it and replace it with the safe version:

pip uninstall elementary-data

pip install elementary-data==0.23.4

In your requirements and lockfiles, pin explicitly to elementary-data==0.23.4.

3. Delete your cache files to avoid any artifacts.

4. Check for the malware’s marker file on any machine where the CLI may have run: If this file is present, the payload executed on that machine.

macOS / Linux: /tmp/.trinny-security-update

Windows: %TEMP%.trinny-security-update

5. Rotate any credentials that were accessible from the environment

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