My very old, abandoned Skype account has just sent messages that look like this: https://www.baidu.com/link?url=9T4jkj27uZ9jJiBpA0LJIMJLSSuDBBdTqTOENNbwmqK&id=<someone's username here>
to everyone on its' contact list. My and several of my friends have also received/sent such messages. Anyone else experiences that?
Yes. In my coworker's experience, this person imitated him to describe that he's in danger and needs money sent by western union ASAP. I think his was also using a baidu link.<p>He suspected his password was brute forced, its an old account and he doesn't have access to the leaked e-mail address.<p>Unless your password is unique, strong, and unleaked common password from another service, that this is just typical bottom-of-the-barallel account hijacking.
Skype finally turned off a bunch of old versions of Skype just now. download.skype.com is refusing connections as a few million people try to upgrade. I suspect it is all knock on effects from that.