If you are a regular Skype user, this will come as a shocker as your private messaging with someone on your contact list could be sent to another random person on your contacts list.

Reported in the Skype support forums, “shocked” users had said private instant messages had been re-sent to to a random person on their contacts list.

Microsoft owned Skype has acknowledged the bug. “We are aware that in rare circumstances IM’s between two contacts could be sent to an unintended third contact,” a Skype spokesperson told Engadget. “We are rolling out a fix for this issue in the next few days and will notify our users to download an updated version of Skype.”