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WARNING: My Skype was HACKED! (26)

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Please don't discuss any of your personal information about campaigns, payment with A4D or anything like that with my old Skype which was "smaxoro". I've heard this person is acting like me and getting people to disclose their campaign information.

If my old account is in any groups please kick it out immediately and if you have it on your skype please block it right away.

I've signed up with a new Skype account "live:jasona_32"

A word of advice. If you don't have skype or ever change your skype address make sure you use a Microsoft Live login with 2-step authentication. I had my other skype 8 years and 3,000 contacts on it. The regular Skype login is easily hacked if you do a search on Google you'll find 1,000's of people that have been hacked.

Microsoft is worthless as far as any kind of support...

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That sucks man! So many people from this industry are getting hacked it's ridiculous.

Did the hacker try to sell you back your account?

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pretty sure he's making much more threw social engineering than selling it back!

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Talked with Steve at length when it happened. So I just let it go and made a new Microsoft Live one with 2 step authentication. Being as you can't convert an old one (LAME).

I hear they get worse if you try and negotiate with them. Ironically enough a few days before someone tried to sell me Mike Kerry's Skype, obviously had no interest. So I'm to assume it's the same person.

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so how long until we move as an industry to a platform that sucks less? remember the AIM days?

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I think as soon as Slack fully incorporates video and audio conferencing capabilities, Skype's days will be numbered.

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Microsoft support is crap for their mail and skype products..

Bad crack for you smaxor.

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so with a regular skype account one can't move to 2 step verification?

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How does your Skype account get hacked? Can this be avoided by using strong password (15 char random stuff)?

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Oh damn, seems like everyone is getting hacked lately.

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ICQ anyone?

Honestly Slack is looking pretty amazing these days for convo, and keep Skype for live chats.

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do you use a pc or a mac? I've noticed alot of this happening to people on pcs haven't heard of it happening to a mac user.

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I'm interested to see where Skype ends up now that MS is merging it with Lync. I've had nothing but good experiences with lync, and that's even using their comparably shitty OS X client.

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I can't wait until we all move away from the atrocity that is Skype and move over to something better...

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Dang, that is unfortunate to hear.

Just added 2-step verification to my Skype account. Here's a basic overview of how to add 2-step verification to your regular Skype account.

1) Sign out of Skype. You should be shown 2 different login methods "Skype Name" and "Microsoft account".
2) Select "Microsoft account" and sign in/create a new account if you don't have one yet. After you login, Skype should display an option to merge the Microsoft account with a Skype username (you'll be prompted for login details from the old Skype account).
3) Login to the Microsoft account (through account.live.com) and go to the "Security & privacy" section to finalize the set up of 2-step authentication.

After this, you'll login solely through the Microsoft account, your old Skype login details won't be needed anymore.

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I've been using icq for a long time now and I always loved it.

Skype is just so widespread now and for most people it's the standard but I would never trust my high risk details to microsoft.

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They still exist though.

There's an exploit in Skype's authentication which allows people using password reset to hack a session. Then login and change the email address.

The only way to prevent this is to create a new account with no actual Skype login.

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All of our team chat happens on slack now days. It's the perfect tool for masterminds as well.

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I love slack and use it daily with teams and masterminds. Now skype is just for dealing with networks and industry friends. The plethora of integrations in slack alone make it drool-worthy...automatic bitbucket updates to our technical channel from our VA's...soooo sexy.

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Damn ICQ was old times, i even remember my without blinking 4847664 .

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100% - Slack is fantastic, especially the integration capabilities (Literally hundreds of them). Plus, I've found that with Slack it pushes far better to your phone than the Skype App ever did.

Plus it offers a sweet 2-Step verification, which helps you avoid the same issues people have had with securing their Skype accounts.

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So ... this just happened to me

No solution?

I was chatting normally when I started seing a lot of people's name poping up on the left, and my skype automatically sending them a spam url ...

I've had my skype for literally forever, 10+ years, 900 business contacts .. please tell me there's a way to get it back lol

I already changed my password, logged out, logged in from the web based interface, nothing .. spam still ongoing


Mehdi

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Did you try the malware removal default list ?

ADwcleaner
Malware byte
RogueKiller

http://www.adlice.com/fr/logiciels/
http://general-changelog-team.fr/fr/outils

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Those are for PC no ? I'm on mac.

I ran a test on my mac just a week ago for something else, with Sophos, and didn't detect any major threats, deleted the ones suggested.

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Mehdi

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check the following setting for any access from any third part applications unknown to you
On Mac:
Skype/Manage API Clients

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Thanx Ted, I looked around on forums & the official skype support board, and apparently that is skype's official answer to this .. obviously, there was nothing in my APIs


Mehdi


EDIT : I'll wait a little bit more to confirm but I think I fixed it.

I noticed the spamming stopped when I switched to "disconnected" status, so I logged off skype, closed it and uninstalled it.

I logged into skype.com, the web bêta version, and as soon as I logged in the spamming started again, switch to "disconnected" and it stops.

So somehow, it couldn't spam without me being logged in .. either on my mac or online.

I changed my password on skype.com.

Ran a scan and clean with Sophos Antivirus on my mac, 2 threats detected and deleted.

Downloaded and installed Skype.

Rename the Skype application to AnythingUnrelated in the "Applications" folder.

Launched and logged in.. so far so good.



Fingers crossed.

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