iStockPhoto was down due to phishing attack on March 3rd 2009

The internet, as you all know, is advantageous as well as a dangerous. The latest news being is iStockPhoto, an online photo store had been hit with a phishing attack. It had taken down its Homepage. This iStockPhoto was acquired by Getty Images in 2006.

Seanb Locke writes that the site did offer a brief explanation on March 3rd evening: “The March 3rd afternoon a phishing attack was conducted in the forums and through sitemail. This attack created a fake iStockPhoto.com login screen, prompting users for a username & password, saved them to a malicious server, then redirected the user back to the iStockPhoto main page”.

The iStock spokesperson said: “There was an attack against iStock on March 3rd 2009, that was discovered by the security team. As a precaution we took down the site but it will be up shortly.

The Site is now being up, please check the website for more – iStockPhoto