as people are staying inside and want a way to hang out with their friends. But in the last few days, there have been tweets from people who claimed their other accounts — including Spotify, PayPal, and Netflix — had been hacked after installing Houseparty. They blamed Houseparty for it.
Houseparty denied that it was either hacking people’s accounts, or that hackers were using it to enter people's accounts. “We’ve found no evidence to suggest a link between Houseparty and the compromises of other unrelated accounts,” Houseparty’s reps said in a statement. That was strange, but what was stranger still was the company’s claim that some entity was making up false rumors on social media about hacking it as part of a paid, targeted smear campaign.There’s little logical reason for Houseparty to want to hack your Spotify .
A spokesperson for PayPal confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it had not seen any user issues related to Houseparty, and that their user accounts remained secure. Even if Houseparty had leaked passwords, PayPal has other safeguards in place for accounts that would prevent malicious logins.
The rumor seems to be largely based in the UK. What’s odd is that a lot of the tweets from people who claim to be hacked are from, uh, beautiful women. Now, this is not to say that beautiful women don’t care about infosec, but if that’s the only demographic claiming to have knowledge of a hack, that does seem perhaps bot-like, as if it were coming from a commercial smear operation.
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