Owner of video chat app Houseparty offers $1m (£810,750) reward for evidence it is victim of a commercial smear campaign
The owner of video chat and game app Houseparty is offering a $1m reward for evidence the company was the victim of a commercial smear campaign.
According to Apptopia downloads of the app rose from an average of 130,000 a week mid-February to 2m a week in the middle of March. Epic Games has not said why it believes Houseparty were the victim of a smear attack but promised to pay the first person to provide evidence of this.On Monday the company began fighting rumours on social media that the video chat app was the reason other apps were being hacked.
We are investigating indications that the recent hacking rumors were spread by a paid commercial smear campaign to harm Houseparty. We are offering a $1,000,000 bounty for the first individual to provide proof of such a campaign to [email protected] does not access third-party apps like Netflix or Spotify, though it does ask for access to user's contacts and connections on Facebook and Snapchat.
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