Lots of non-savvy users may be recycling previously hacked creds
Group video chat app Houseparty has offered a $1m bounty to identify what it claims is an organised campaign to falsely depict it as a hackers' backdoor.
Announced at 4am UTC on the firm's Twitter account, the million-dollar bounty is being offered to "the first individual to provide proof of such a campaign," with Epic Games, the firm behind Houseparty, alleging this effort is "a paid commercial smear… to harm Houseparty."
The app has exploded in popularity since most of the world entered coronavirus lockdown as a replacement for interacting within venues such as pubs, coffee shops and restaurants. Most people use it to livestream themselves drunkenly trying out filters that turn their fizzogs into cartoon dogs and so on.
Over the last few days, rumours have been seeded on Twitter th ..
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