[Snyk] Security upgrade web3 from 1.2.6 to 1.2.8

[meck93]

Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

As this is a private repository, Snyk-bot does not have access. Therefore, this PR has been created automatically, but appears to have been created by a real user.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • access-provider-backend/package.json
  • access-provider-backend/package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	411/1000 Why? Recently disclosed, CVSS 6.8	Cryptographic Issues SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-1064899	No	No Known Exploit

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: web3

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• e5b3b37 v1.2.8
• 6289002 v1.2.8-rc.1
• fcf5d22 Add 1.2.8-rc.1 changelog entries
• ba7677d Merge pull request #3522 from ethereum/abiCoderParamFormatting
• 16c44d4 Fix setContenthash docs formatting (#3511)
• d13c468 Add detail to compatibility comment
• b7dbcd6 handle more encoding rules to reduce any breaking changes for abicoder dep update
• 58d1f5b Merge pull request #3521 from ethereum/fix/release-tsc-errors
• 7911e5d Apply geth 1.9.13 CI fix to release branch
• 7d27f50 Revert contract.method TS definition change (PR #3454)
• 14a0272 Add optional connected property to AbstractProvider type
• 035d11a v1.2.8-rc.0
• dd4c8ec Merge pull request #3507 from ethereum/changelog-1.2.8.rc.0
• e94013f Add headers
• 26db9c1 Create 1.2.9 entry
• 07c8b8f Add missing items for 1.2.8 changelog
• d543605 Merge pull request #3509 from ethereum/issue/3508
• 488b7c2 Update changelog
• 9be703d Bind btoa to window when context is not Node
• 17e9671 Add failing test for wss://user:password@localhost style urls
• 697b40f Build on push to `1.x` (#3506)
• bd37b91 Merge pull request #3502 from ethereum/issue/3491
• 5fd3711 Merge branch '1.x' into issue/3491
• 537d7ce Merge pull request #3504 from ethereum/issue/3496

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