Baidu link spam in Skype exposes need to secure your account

Many Skype users have recently reported seeing spam messages with links to Baidu or LinkedIn recently, and it appears the issue isn’t a small one. As reported by The Verge, hackers have managed to breach Skype accounts to send spam even when the accounts have been “secured” with Microsoft’s two-factor authentication.

Microsoft confirmed the problem in a statement to The Verge, noting that Skype itself was not breached, but hackers obtained account credentials by other means: