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15 November, 2012

Microsoft is scrambling Wednesday to fix a security vulnerability that allowed anyone to hijack another user’s Skype account with a dead-simple trick. But if it had listened to one helpful user who reported a bug in its registration system months ago, it might have avoided the whole fiasco.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/11/14/bug-that-helped-enable-skype-account-takeovers-reported-by-a-user-months-earlier/