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1. What was your password? If it's been changed, was completely random, and never used anywhere else, you should have no problem posting it here.

2. There's an Adobe Flash zero-day out there: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/04/adobe-flash-update/

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1. Password was only used for skype, it was "blocks12", was set around 5 or 6 years ago only for skype, I have moved to password management apps lately and all my current passwords are 20+ character generated strings and if two step authentication is available I always choose it. However I completely forgot about skype since I opened it so many years ago.

2. I have it already installed.

Should I reinstall OSx or is it just a skype hack?

[edit] when I went to download the adobe update - turns out I already have it installed...

Ya, hard to say. If it really isn't related to your username or identify somehow, it would be hard to think that someone would brute force you specifically. Not that it's a very strong password.

https://code.google.com/p/skype-bruteforcer/

looks like a 60 second timeout between attempts.

But if the 60 second timeout is IP specific - he could have work around it by using botnet?

> Password was only used for skype, it was "blocks12" ...

Okay, now I understand. With all respect, you need to learn how to choose a password.

http://www.passwordmeter.com/

Score: 34%, weak.

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