ID: IRCNE2011051125
Date: 2011-05-31
According to “Datamation”, VoIP server provider Skype was hit with a major outage last week. Skype first acknowledged that it was having trouble on Thursday, via a note on the Skype website indicating that a small number of users may be having problems signing into the service. At the time, Skype noted that the flaw primarily affected Skype for Windows users.
By late afternoon Thursday, Skype issued an update of its Windows client to help solve the issue.
"Earlier today, a corruption occured in a small percentage of users' systems that resulted in some of our community not being able to sign in to Skype," Skype spokesperson wrote on the Skype blog. " We issued some instructions which would allow you to get back online, but understand that they're fairly technical, and have been working hard to produce a version of Skype for Windows which fixes this problem automatically."
Skype noted that an update for Mac client was coming. According to Skype, mobile users were not affected by the flaw and as such no update or workarounds are necessary.
Linux users however were given instruction on how to perform a manual update to their client to mitigate the problem.
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