Skype has stopped operating since June 19 in June in most areas of Europe and in a few parts of the United States. Microsoft was struggling for nearly 24 hours to restore access to the service, especially in Continental Europe, where some users still could not connect.
Microsoft acknowledged that the Skype service had problems but did not report anything about the cause of the interruption.
Hacking Group CyberTeam took over the responsibility for Skype holidays, saying members of the company had hit the service and promised that other attacks would follow soon.
In a tweet published on 19 in June, CyberTeam says that stopping Skype was "just the beginning of a new era", with Valve's Steam service the next target.
https://twitter.com/_CyberTeam_/status/876912510883872769
At this point, it's hard to see if CyberTeam is actually responsible for Skype's downtime due to a DDoS attack, or if the company makes some corrections that when it's over will all come back to normal.
“We have made some corrections and mitigated the problem. We will continue to monitor and will post an update when the problem is completely resolved, ”Microsoft said on 20 June at 20: 00 GMT.
Initially, the company said it knew the problems they were facing and claimed that it had resolved them a few hours later.
Microsoft Instant Messaging seems to work for most users at the moment, although Twitter has complaints that the service can not send and receive messages.
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
