Concerned my mac may have been compromised

Clare in Chi wrote:

I have been using Skype for dealing with a student who asked that I use it, and suddenly today it kept asking for permission to export my apple ID authentication. I read about this (apparently agreeing deletes the content of your keychain and possibly compromises your passwords) and did not agree to the request. Then based on a suggestion when reading about this I went looking in my keychain to see if there were odd skype-related things (the person posting had fixed his issue by deleting a lot of extraneous skype stuff from ketchain). There weren't any of those there, but there was this: "[account] Unknown, application password, LaunchServices device identifier base secret [with a date of Jan 3 2020 on it].

This certainly looks suspicious, and googling it I only found one reference, from someone who had malware on his computer from "Clean my Mac." I don't have that, but is this a problem, & if so what should I do about it?

Updating the Software or reinstalling Skype maybe all it takes...

You can try searching Skype Support "export my apple ID authentication" for known issues

you can sift through some here

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/351997/skype-wants-to-export-apple-id-authentication-from-the-keychain

There doesn’t appear to be any malicious activity. It is just a bug. This thread has a suggestion for a fix: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251375191

Also the Microsoft forums have some information too.