WHID 2008-20: XSS Worm At Justin.tv Affects 2525 Profiles

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A proof of concept XSS worm crawled justin.tv, a popular lifecasting platform. The warm succeeded in planting a self replicating code on 2525 accounts in less than 24 hours before the vulnerability was fixed.

Additional information:

Attack Method: 
Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Worm
Incident Outcome: 
Planting of Malware