Skype has crashed for millions of users purportedly after an update by Microsoft.

It would appear that those most affected are European users. The problems started yesterday, but it continues today.

Cybercriminals are taking responsibility for the crash, but that claim has not been supported as yet.

Skype support tweeted: 'There is an ongoing incident affecting the ability to connect to the application. We are investigating, stay tuned!'

Skype has confirmed that the issue can be either that customers can not send and receive messages or lose connectivity.

Microsoft has not commented on the problem, but there are reports that it may be caused by a DDoS attack. And thrown into the mix is a tweet by a group called CyberTeam who posted: 'Skype down by CyberTeam.'

Source: Daily Mail