Hello, I am following the forum for a while greetings to everyone!

A post with a similar subject "Istock is hacked" appeared on the istock forums few days ago. This thread is not live anymore, it was quickly deleted, despite several people answered to it. Someone was saying he registered on istockresseller to see if they have our non-watermarked files on their servers.

I decided to check out that as well, so here is my experience:
_I registered with istockresseller and received a $2 bonus within 1 hour of registration.
_with that $2 bonus I was able to purchase and download from their site an xsmall non-watermarked image of one of my files which I uploaded to istock only few days ago.
_the purchase instantly appeared on my istock account as an xxl file download and the royalty received was $11.

I double checked the sale with istock's customer support and they said the download and the received royalty is correct.

How is that istockresseller got hold of non-watermarked images? Shouldn't we get protection for our images on istock? Does Istock really do not know that their website is hacked? I am wondering what is happening here?

Any ideas on what to do? I feel robbed.

Thanks.