Houseparty has become the most downloaded app right now. The app, which allows you to make video calls and play with your friends or family, has become essential during the quarantine and confinement due to the Coronavirus COVID-19.
This type of app, which makes things much easier, does not seem to be free of problems. Last we heard is that Houseparty could have been hacked. And that is how many users of the application report it.
From Houseparty they assure that the app has not been hacked and they offer a million dollars to whoever gets it
A large number of users have reported the situation. Apparently, many users decided to download this application due to the lockdown, and after a few days of use, they began to detect anomalies in their accounts.
The tweet in which they assure that the app has not been hacked
These anomalies were not in the account of Houseparty, but were in their email accounts used to create the account in Houseparty , where they received password change notifications, and logins to apps like Spotify or Netflix and even to their bank account. All these users who reported the situation had something in common: everything had happened after downloading the app .
After learning this, the developers have communicated via Twitter And, in the released tweet, they assure that there has been no hacking.In fact, they are so sure of it that they say it is a smear campaign and offer a million dollar reward to whoever manages to hack the app .
Some of Houseparty's features
In any case, for safety and prevention, we inform you how you can delete your account. When you are in the Houseparty app, you will have to press the smiley face that you will find in the upper left part.
Then you have to go to the bottom and select “Privacy” and “Delete Account”. Once we have pressed this, the app will inform us that the account will be closed. We will only have to enter our password and our account will be deleted.
What are you going to do? Will you delete your account and the app, like many users, or will you continue using the app as before?
