At the end of March, video chat app Houseparty, owned by Epic Games, responded to unsubstantiated reports that user accounts had been hacked – by offering a $1m bounty to anyone able to prove the rumors were part of a coordinated campaign to smear the company.
The developer said at the time it had no evidence of any link between Houseparty and claimed compromises of accounts at other services like Spotify, Netflix, and PayPal. And it insisted Houseparty accounts were secure.
While some Twitter posts taking aim at Houseparty appear to be dubious, evidence of any smear campaign has yet to surface, and it appears the $1m bounty has not been awarded. The Register twice asked Houseparty to confirm this. Though we received a statement, no answer was provided to ..
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