Recent Skype hacking

Hi, everybody, I've noticed all the recent well-known Sythe users skype accounts being hacks, so I did a little research on it and came back with this.

This is copy&pasted from a website, i'd rather not link the site, seeing as it tells you how to hack as well...

How to protect your accounts

You already changed password for the target account, know the skype login, and able to use that target skype account. But somebody could take it back from you, just as you did (owner for example).
To prevent that you need to change your primary email to some address, unknown to anyone.

To do that:
1. Sign in on skype website.
2. Go into the "profile" link (click to enlarge):


3. On account information, go down, to "Contact details", click "Add email address":




4. Add your email address, which unknown to anybody, but you:




Click save button at the bottom of the form. After page reload, refresh page again to prevent some strange glitches of the site (if you will not reload the page, after you do following steps, it will forget steps 4 and 5 and discard that little work).

5. Scroll to Contact details again. Click on "Add email address" again. Switch primary email to the new one:



Click "Save" button at the bottom of the form, again.
It will ask you for your password. You know it already. Type password and click button by mouse, not by "Enter" key.
After page reload, refresh page again to prevent some strange glitches of the site (described above).

6. Scroll to Contact details again. Click on "Add email address" again. Delete (with backspace and/or delete buttons) all emails but primary:



7. Click "Save" button at the bottom of the form. Make sure all your changes applied (it sometimes require two or more attempts, since the site is developed by curly-handed programmers).
8. Tell to friends how to protect a skype account. ASAP

At the time there is no other way to protect your skype account, except changing of primary email to some unknown address.
Once account is stolen, it has ability to retrieve all your IM history from other peers.
If you already lost your account, contact to all your necessary contacts and tell them to remove you from their contact list. It prevents IM history interchange (if it is not already happened).

 

Changing your primary email isn't enough, if a hacker knows your creation email, they can get your skype. You're best off creating an entirely new skype with information that only you know

 

Yeah, but at least this is a step in the right direction.

I've already changed my primary email to something secure.

 

Yeah, but I understand what he is saying in an attempt to help protect us we appreciate the information but ultimately everyone should just make a new skype where no one knows the email attached.

 

This is the least we can do, but as Video said the best method of securing yourself is making a Skype account with a random address that only you know.

 

Adding Skype credit or starting a subscription can prevent your account being hacked. If you have made a purchase with your skype account, the "hacker" will need purchase information in order to recover your account.

Only accounts without skype credit are recoverable via email, location of creation, creation date etc.

The proof of purchase is emailed to you, and so should be secure from hackers.

 

how do they get the pw?

 

Recovering using information gathered about the person, something called Doxing.

 

I have personally learned just make a new skype. I have been hacked and it is not fun.

 

Bought $5 worth of Skype Credits, still got hacked...

Going to make a new Skype with an unknown email so hopefully that'll do the trick

 

That didn't work either...

used an email address that nobody else knew, and still got hacked.

EVERYTHING besides that is public, yet hackers are still managing to recover my skype account since it's so fucking easy to recover. Anyone figured it out yet?

 

Freaking Hackers I Got Scammed =[