Skype account hijack vulnerability fixed
The folks over at Microsoft (who now owns Skype) fixed a bug earlier today that potentially would have allowed anyone to hijack a Skype account simply by knowing the e-mail address the account was associated with. Apparently the vulnerability was found at least 3 months ago by a Russian researcher who claims that many users were affected. I'm not aware of any procedures in place to reclaim a Skype ID that was hijacked, but if anyone knows of one please let us know either by leaving a comment or contacting us via the contact page. Trend Micro[1] has a pretty good writeup, so I won't rehash the whole thing here and Microsoft has responded[2].
References:
[1] http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/skype-vulnerability/
[2] http://heartbeat.skype.com/2012/11/security_issue.html
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