Skype dials a number by itself

Hi, I was awaken at night by the sound of skype on my windows 8.1 laptop dialling a number of one of my contacts.  I had to rush to cancel the call.  What can be the problem?  Can it be a sign of a virus? I have the latest version of skype, but remember another contact about a year ago asking if I called her - which I never did.  Most embarassing, given all the trouble to people.

Yes, and as it's obviously a security flaw in iOS im looking to see where to put a claim into Apple.  Clearly not the carriers fault.

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