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For those continuing to suffer through the Skype outage, the news today was that Skype has neither been hacked nor broken by a recent update. The Skype Heartbeat blog explains:
The Skype system has not crashed or been victim of a cyber attack. We love our customers too much to let that happen. This problem occurred because of a deficiency in an algorithm within Skype networking software. This controls the interaction between the user’s own Skype client and the rest of the Skype network.