Houseparty denies hack, as users blame app for data breaches

guest · Mar 30, 2020

Houseparty denies hack, as users blame app for data breaches
March 30, 2020
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news...k-as-app-cops-blame-for-data-breaches-4020321

The app, which is owned by Epic Games, took to Twitter to reassure users its service hasn’t been compromised and user’s accounts are safe.

The company behind the app wrote: “All Houseparty accounts are safe – the service is secure, has never been compromised, and doesn’t collect passwords for other sites.”
However, the thread and others are littered with comments from users alleging they fell victim to data breaches on other services, shortly after downloading the application. Users have claimed that services like Netflix, Spotify and PayPal accounts have since fallen victim to hackers.

All that those users have to go on is they recently downloaded the Houseparty app. What appears more likely is the users experiencing hits have used the same password for multiple services.
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Reports on social media suggest that the company is so overwhelmed with emails from users right now that its support inbox is full and currently not accepting new messages.
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guest · Mar 31, 2020

Houseparty app says hack rumours are part of paid 'smear campaign' and offers $1m bounty to prove it
March 31, 2020
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...unt-safe-android-iphone-twitter-a9437496.html

Social video app Houseparty has rejected online rumours that downloading the application causes users' social media and other online accounts to be hacked.

The app's creators instead claim that it is the victim of a "commercial smear campaign" designed to dent its surging popularity, offering a $1 million bounty to anyone who can provide proof.
On Tuesday, Houseparty posted a follow-up tweet offering the million-dollar reward.

"We are investigating indications that the recent hacking rumours were spread by a paid commercial smear campaign to harm Houseparty," it stated. "We are offering a $1,000,000 bounty for the first individual to provide proof of such a campaign."
Anyone with any information relating to the alleged campaign is urged to contact bounty@houseparty.com in order to claim the bounty.

Cyber security experts have also dismissed the rumours, noting that such a hack would not even be technically possible.
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guest · May 22, 2020

The Mystery of 'Hacked' Houseparty Users May Have Been Solved
May 23, 2020
https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/05/the-mystery-of-hacked-houseparty-users-may-have-been-solved/

One by one, users started claiming on social media that after downloading the popular app, they had found bizarre purchases on their bank statements, or that their email had been hacked. “Everyone delete the houseparty app now”, one tweet reads, “hacked into my account and spent money on Bet365, Dominos and Porn Hub Premium, absolutely devastated.”

However, a new report by Zach Edwards, the founder of the analytics firm Victory Medium, may shed some light on what actually occurred. The report alleges that rather than corporate sabotage, the hacks were of Houseparty’s own making – negligence that resulted in a vulnerability that left hundreds of thousands of people exposed to scammers trying to harvest credentials and credit card information.
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In a detailed post on Medium, Edwards tells the story of a global hacking group that allegedly commandeered dozens of domain names belonging to Houseparty, using them to host dozens of malicious PDF files, that, if visited, would redirect unsuspecting Houseparty users to fake services that attempted to extract their credit card information and credentials.
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Epic Games Ignored Epic Subdomain Takeover on their Authentication Domain, Promoted $1 Million Bounty to Address User Complaints

A global hacking group took over Epic Games subdomains, then the problem was swept under the rug by Epic Games
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