Voice Over IP service Skype is having trouble with their service as of late. According to reports, this four-week-old problem sends copies of some messages to unintended recipients.
Microsoft has confirmed the reports and said in a statement to Engadget, “We are aware that in rare circumstances IMs between two contacts could be sent to an unintended third contact. We are rolling out a fix for this issue in the next few days and will notify our users to download an updated version of Skype.”
The problem was initially reported on a Skype support forum by a user who was stunned as to why some of her contacts were receiving message she had sent to only a few contacts. Others followed her lead and reported that they experienced the same problem.
According to Skype, Skype versions 5.9 and 5.10 for Windows, Skype 5.8 for Mac, Skype 4.0 for Linux, 1.2 for Windows Phone, Skype 2.8 for Android and Skype 4.0 for iOS are vulnerable from these bugs.
Skype added in a blog post, “This issue occurs only when a user’s Skype client crashes during a Skype IM session, which many in some cases result in the last IM entered or sent prior to the crash being delivered to a different IM contact after the Skype client is rebooted or logged in as a new user.”
Be wary of this problem. You might send a raunchy message to your boss!
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