Skype has been down since yesterday, June 19, in most parts of Europe and a few parts of the United States. THE Microsoft he was fighting almost 24 hours to restore her access to the service, especially in mainland Europe, where some users were still unable to connect.
Microsoft acknowledged that the Skype service had problems, but did not say anything about the reasons for the break.
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've made some fixes and mitigated it problem. We are continuing to monitor and will release an update when the issue is fully resolved," Microsoft said on June 20 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.
The application of direct messages Microsoft's service appears to be working for most users for now, although there are complaints on Twitter that the service is unable to send and receive messages.
