A Cyber Hacking Group Has Claimed Responsibility For Skype Outage

Even though Skype reported on their website that it has been blocked in the UAE, it may be related to a hacking incident that affected other countries in the past week. 

The service has also been disrupted in Singapore, India, Pakistan and South Africa.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority most recently issued a statement on the matter last week. Skype previously had a license to operate in the UAE so it would be unusual for that to have changed. 

“(We are) aware of an incident where users will either lose connectivity to the application or may be unable to send or receive messages.”

Microsoft Satement

A hacking group seem to have taken credit for the issue

Skype down by CyberTeam

Hello World !!!#SkypeDown – #SkypeOff – #CyberTeam

— CyberTeam (@_CyberTeam_) June 19, 2017

Skype confirmed on their website that it was blocked in the UAE

More details here . We await to see if this is a UAE imposed a ban or whether it is the result of a hacking incident.