Re: My skype account was hacked and unauthorised s...

I had the same problem today, had £16 of credit and when I tried to log in to my account today I got a message saying that it had been suspended, contacted LiveChat and they were no use because I havent credited anything to my account in a few years so couldnt give them my card number which turned out to be lucky.
I had received a mail apparently from Skype but it was in Chinese or something so assumed it was spam but now I assume this was actually the email to tell me of the suspicious activity.
Somehow I also got an email on how to reset my password and this unlocked my account and then I saw the 54 mins of calls to Guinea made yesterday.
Really hope Skype sort out their security as working in IT, I dont believe it is anything that I can have done to have allowed access to my account!
Good luck getting your calls sorted out.

paulhugill wrote:
I dont believe it is anything that I can have done to have allowed access to my account!
Hello,
This is not a Skype responsibility.
The ONLY way that your account can be hacked is by the hacker knowing (or "cracking") your password. You should now change this immediately.
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I recommend that you always run the latest Skype version: Windows & Mac
If my advice helped to fix your issue please mark it as a solution to help others.
Please note that I generally don't respond to unsolicited Private Messages. Thank you.

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