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Did Skype just change my password without warning?

So, Skype just came back up for me after 24 hours of being offline.Then this sudden error message while I was in the middle of a work-related conversation (Skype is my primary phone service for work):With all the speculation swirling that this outage might be linked to a malicious hacking attack, I'm curious about whether this is a random bug linked to network problems or something more sinister.
Written by Ryan Naraine, Contributor

So, Skype just came back up for me after 24 hours of being offline.

Then this sudden error message while I was in the middle of a work-related conversation (Skype is my primary phone service for work):

Did Skype just change my password without warning?

With all the speculation swirling that this outage might be linked to a malicious hacking attack, I'm curious about whether this is a random bug linked to network problems or something more sinister.

Something doesn't feel right.

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