Skype Investigating Vulnerability Which Reveals Users’ IP Addresses

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Skype said Tuesday it is investigating a new tool that collects a person’s last known IP address, a potential privacy-compromising issue. 

Instructions posted on Pastebin on Thursday showed how a person’s IP address could be shown without adding the targeted user as a contact by looking at the person’s general information and log files.

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