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How “supply chain attack” trended on Hacker News

“Supply chain attack” was mentioned 4,337 times on Hacker News between 2010 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2026 with 261 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “supply chain attack” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “supply chain attack”

1. 1.Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised 1,233 points · 1,019 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack 1,154 points · 431 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites 887 points · 370 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain 669 points · 224 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks 522 points · 259 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack 468 points · 240 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.A supply chain attack on PyTorch 463 points · 101 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
8. 8.GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack 420 points · 258 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack 352 points · 23 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.How Go mitigates supply chain attacks 311 points · 255 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL 297 points · 61 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks 238 points · 146 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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