'We will share this information with the reseller and any relevant law enforcement bodies.' 'We will also review additional layers of security that we can add to our reseller accounts,' he added. 'We are currently reviewing our logs to see if we can obtain information on the identity of the party that has used the reseller credentials,' Melbourne IT spokesman Tony Smith told Fairfax. 'We're talking about nickles and dimes compared to the value of the site,' he said in terms of the cost. Locks are sold by domain registrars as an added security measure. He said he recommended as a standard practice that clients turn on registry 'locks' for a small fee to prevent something similar from occurring. 'We don't know if it happened through our systems or the reseller's systems.' 'We're currently working with them to work out where the vulnerability is,' he said. Melbourne IT chief executive Theo Hnarakis, who announced on Tuesday he would step down by the end of the year, told Fairfax Media he wasn't prepared to name the reseller but said it was based in the US. They are responsible for updating and renewing clients' web records. Resellers are the middleman between registrar and companies purchasing internet domains. The company had acted to fix the problem and change the reseller's credentials once they were aware of the attack. But Melbourne IT said credentials of one of its resellers (the username and password) were used to access a reseller account on Melbourne IT's systems.

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