Brandon Miller (motorcyclist)

Brandon Nozaki Miller is a software developer and former motorcycle racer.
Motorcycle career
Miller was the first person to "break the ton" (go over 100 mph) in the 150 kg Unfaired Electric Motorcycle Class. As of 2012, he holds the FIM/AMA landspeed records for 150 kg unfaired electric motorcycle in the mile, 101.652 mph, and the kilometer, 102.281 mph. He first set these records using a stock 2012 production Zero Motorcycles ZF6, breaking the previous record of 68 mph a speed of 96 mph for two FIM/AMA world records and setting a brand-new AMA record for fastest modified production electric motorcycle, all of which he broke two more times in the following two days resulting in his final records over 100 mph. Miller set his records at the Bonneville Speedway in Utah.
March 2022 node-ipc malware incident
In March 2022, Miller, maintainer of the <code>node-ipc</code> package on the npm package registry, released a version containing malicious code in protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The payload would write a file named "WITH-LOVE-FROM-AMERICA.txt", containing an anti-war message, to the desktop of affected machines. Additionally, on machines with Belarusian and Russian IP addresses, the payload would overwrite all files on the system with a heart emoji.
Among the affected projects was Vue.js, which used <code>node-ipc</code> as a dependency but did not pin its dependencies to a specific version. This led to some users of Vue.js becoming affected by the malicious package if the dependency was fetched as the latest package. Unity Hub 3.1 also included the malicious variant of <code>node-ipc</code>, though a patch was issued the same day as the release.

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