One of the largest microstock agencies has been the victim of a phishing attack. iStockphoto reported that a phishing attack had taken place on their forums and through their sitemail system but they managed to close it down very quickly. According to the report, the attack took users to a fake login screen that then collected username and password information on a different server and then redireceted users back to the real iStockphoto site.

It isn’t stated how many people were caught out by this attack but the advice given is to change your password as soon as possible and at other sites where you use the same password.

You can’t blame iStockphoto for this attack, it could happen at any site where they allow forum access and have sitemail but if you have a habit of using the same username and password over multiple sites, it wouldn’t take a genius to guess which other microstock photography sites you belong to leaving you vulnerable to someone hacking your accounts.