Speculation that the outage was caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack or by some previously planned maintenance that Skype conducted late Tuesday have been regularly quashed by the company. The company, a division of online auctioneer eBay Inc., has not provided details of the blackout's cause, saying only that it was due to a "deficiency in an algorithm within Skype networking software." EDT, users writing on the company's own message forums began reporting problems connecting to the service as early as Wednesday afternoon.
Individual users, meanwhile, reported that they were able to reconnect to the service - in some cases for the first time in almost two days - and that their connections remained stable, even if the Skype client was often slow to respond.Īlthough Skype first confirmed the outage Thursday around 9 a.m.
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