iStockPhoto: Gone Phishing

iStockPhoto, the photo site acquired by Getty Images back in 2006, was hit by a phishing attack last night.

The Twitter universe was buzzing about it as all users who tried to log in were instructed to change their passwords as a precaution.  The site was also taken down for a while as the whole mess was sorted out.

The site did offer an explanation as to what occurred:

This 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.

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