A bug in Skype has the consequence that private lwa messages, unwillingly, to a different contact person can be sent. According to the voip service has only a small group suffer from the bug and will that ‘within a few days repaired.
The error occurs as soon as a call to crash. When Skype is restarted, the last message, unintentionally, to a different be sent. Skype employee Leonas Sendrauskas reports on the blog of the company that the bug has been detected and that a solution is on the way. “We urge all Skype users on the latest client to download as soon as they receive that, including this fix, is available.”
How many users with the bug, is not clear. “We can not precisely determine how many people suffer from these problems. However, We believe that it is a small number, because the problems in very specific situations,” says Sendrauskas. According to Skype, the problems occur in the following versions: Skype 5.9 and 5.10 for Windows, 5.8 for Mac, 4.0 for Linux, and 1.2 for Windows Phone, 2.8 for Android and 4.0 for iOS. Update 15:28: Now there is an update available. This would fix the issues.