Chinese hackers have hacked Skype

Chinese have hacked the Internet service protocol - Skype telephony and they are going to develop a similar service completely compatible with Skype, Playfuls informs. For the eBay company, which has bought Skype Technologies in September, 2005 for 2,6 billion dollars and since then it held the protocol in a secret, the disclosing of the protocol can turn back problems.

On April, 2006 the number of the Skype users was exceeded 100 millions people, having increased twice in comparison with 54 millions registered users in September of the last year. In opinion of the analysts, for short time Skype can lose up to 40 millions users, especially from China, Asia, Africa and Near East.

The appearance of the Skype competitor on the Chinese on-line market is remarkable that by 2010 China, in opinion of the analysts, will surpass USA by number of the Internet - users and becomes one of the largest Internet - advertising market in the world.