They can find your password using mobile apps or wireless network sniffing, and are part of massive organized rings. colleague who had become collateral damage in my ex's crusade, we got word that another independent game developer's Skype account had been compromised. Anyone can get scammed, and these criminals will take advantage of the slightest weakness in your armoury. So, let my experience be a lesson to you. To this day I can’t understand why I let this pass, but again, it could have been all down to the Christmas rush, a time when our guards are often dropped. I should also have acted upon the strange activity on my Skype account. Luckily I had a limit on the amount of Skype credit I could purchase, otherwise the culprit might have emptied my bank account (or at least my PayPal account). If anything, however, I’ve proved to you (and myself of course) that regardless of your knowledge or expertise, active threats persist, and it only takes a moment of ignorance for you to find that you’re losing money from right under your nose. To find that I had fallen foul of this sort of scam is pretty galling, I’ll be honest.

I’ve authored a fair few articles and essays both online and offline over the years concerning user account security and the growing number of risks and threats.

Skype account hacked