WARNING! Email accounts are attempted to be compromised from this site!

I recently became a member on this site and never had any issues with someone trying to compromise my email until I signed up here, which is all of a sudden so convenient. My email has also been recently updated to a new password prior so all signs point to Pond5. Either someone on the Pond5 team is going around, trying to get into users’ passwords or a user has access to the database without the team even realizing.

Luckily, I have Two-Step verification enabled and it shows from my text that someone from Vietnam tried to log into my email.


Pond5 team, you really need to do something about this.

Don't think this would be related to pond5... I had the same after I made an instagram account, it was stolen by someone from Russia, but I recovered it. You could be on anyone's list from any site you used your email on.

For example someone is using my email address to hide their actual email address for sending spam. Nothing I can do about it since they just make it appear as my address (spoofing), you can send an email and make it appear as if it was sent from any address you want, without having to have access to it. And this is basically happening because most likely some small e-shop I bought stuff at years ago got their email database hacked and now they're just using people's adresses to hide the sender's email. I get angry emails all the time, but my actual email is completely secure.
TLDR: stuff like this happens on the internet.

Well spotted, this can generate GDPR money. Keep you eyes on the ball;)