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Gerald
12-23-10, 12:42 PM
The free internet phone service Skype is slowly coming back online after an outage that affected millions of people around the globe.The firm's engineers are still working to fix the problem, which first started at around 2030 GMT on 22 December.Skype said the fault had been caused by a "software issue" on critical parts of its network. The firm told the BBC that it was currently handling 12.5 million phone calls, 50% of its normal traffic."We take outages like this really seriously and apologise for the inconvenience," Skype chief Tony Bates told BBC News.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12064394



Note: 23 December 2010 Last updated at 14:58 GMT
FIREWALL
12-23-10, 12:51 PM
Probably was hacked.
Gerald
12-23-10, 02:07 PM
Probably was hacked. A fully credible explanation!
papa_smurf
12-23-10, 02:11 PM
A fully credible explanation!

Its straight and to the point, no need for all that technical jargon:D
Gerald
12-23-10, 02:24 PM
Its straight and to the point, no need for all that technical jargon:D Some technical details are unnecessary, since no or very few have an interest in it as long as they get up and running, :know:
Gerald
12-30-10, 08:10 AM
Server overloads and a bug in Skype for Windows caused the two-day outage for the net phone firm.Details of what caused the service to be unusable for millions of users prior to Christmas have been posted on the firm's blog.The two events combined to create a cascade of problems that managed to knock out much of the network underpinning the phone service.Skype is assessing how its network is built to stop the problem recurring.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12092795



Note: update record, 30 December 2010 Last updated at 10:02 GMT