Whats the point everyone writing telling how many images they lost??  in the end we have 10 pages of numbers??

Misery loves company. It feels good to commiserate with others in the same crappy situation. People need to vent and share and then try and move on. I think it's called a human reaction. 

I did not lose any money.. no one wants to steal my stuff, let alone buy it legit.

Whats the point everyone writing telling how many images they lost??  in the end we have 10 pages of numbers??

So that we can appreciate the sheer scale of what has been going on __ and therefore fully understand just how abysmal Istockphoto's efforts to protect our work has been.

Quote from: lagereek on February 04, 2011, 03:13

Scary scenario! if IS, the biggest one where all their contributors becomes the victims, then what about all the rest?  At this moment I think the entire Micro industry is in jeopardy, built on a very fragile business module over an Internet where everything is possible and with no stopping.

Seams to me this scam was engineered and whatever is the mastermind behind it, they did a bloody good job, undetected for months. Probably just pure luck it was detected at all?

No. It is apparently almost unique to Istockphoto because their developers are the worst in the business. If they can't even provide real-time statistics (for years) let alone a functioning search engine (not to mention all the other major and minor issues) then I am not at all surprised that their defense systems have been breached by someone that actually knows what they are doing. I'd expect more of this to come at Istockphoto but probably nowhere else.

Oh No, just wait and see, unique for IS? well maybe this but all other downers will soon be everyday occurances with the others, its bound to happen and will.

Oh No, just wait and see, unique for IS? well maybe this but all other downers will soon be everyday occurances with the others, its bound to happen and will.

We already have 'wait and see'. They tried it on at BigStock (at the same time at Istockphoto) but quickly got stopped. It is virtually certain that the same gang attempted the same scam at SS, DT and FT (why wouldn't they?) but without any apparent sucess. Istockphoto turned out to provide the most welcoming facilities for the thieves and apparently they only found out about it through contributors expressing concerns about unusual buying patterns. It's even taken over a month for Istockphoto to track down what was stolen and inform the contributors. Incredible.