Skype has crashed for millions of people around the world, following recent updates by Microsoft. The problems began yesterday, but have continued through to today, with users in Europe appearing to be the worst affected. A group of cyber criminals has claimed that they are behind the attack, but this is yet to be confirmed by Microsoft. Microsoft, who owns Skype, has confirmed the issue on Twitter, referring to the outage as a ‘global incident.’ Skype Support tweeted: ‘There is an ongoing incident affecting the ability to connect to the application. We are investigating, stay tuned!’ The firm has said that the incident is causing users to either lose connectivity to the app, or lose their ability to send and receive messages. And according to a blog posted by Microsoft, some users are having problems with group calling, while others are experiencing delays adding users to their friend list.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Daily Mail
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