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A developer maintained a NodeJS package called left-pad that would add leading whitespace to strings. He unpublished the package and broke basically the entire Node ecosystem until the repo owner forcibly republished it against the author's wishes.
https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/