[buboard]

Thats how i lost my last account. They were asking me details like the account creation date which was > 15 years old

[rabboRubble]

yeah, i read about that requirement. there is a way to interrogate skype's windows desktop client install to extract the account creation date. even squirreled away a support link about how to do this which of course is now broken.

Edit: new link here

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/skype-ac...

[samnwa]

Were you worried at all about the culprit using the access to figure out other accounts? My account had a balance so I assume it had some old credit card info in it or something similar.

[buboard]

I did manage to get them to block the account because it was obviously stolen. But unable to reclaim it. I was more worried they d spam my friends.

[samnwa]

In messaging with support, they advised that the system would 'automatically' identify the account as compromised and eventually block it. This doesn't seem that likely so I will ping them again in a few hours.

[samnwa]

That's good news. I will reach out again and try to get it blocked at least but so far they have been unwilling to do so.