Epic Games offer one million dollars for proof that their Houseparty video chat app is being smeared

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Epic Games offer one million dollars for proof that their Houseparty video chat app is being smeared2020, you’ve done it again

2020, you’ve done it again

As well as creating the Unreal Engine, making Fortnite, running their own games store, andpublishing games, Epic Games apparently also own a group video chat programme named Houseparty? I too had missed their purchase announcement last year, until current events dragged it into headlines. Houseparty are currently offering a $1,000,000 (£790k) bounty if someone can prove “a paid commercial smear campaign” is behind recent rumours that the software is hacking other apps on people’s phones. Everyone’s getting on video party chat now, y’know, and the battle to dominate it might be a dirty one.

Houseparty denied this,insistingon Monday that “All Houseparty accounts are safe - the service is secure, has never been compromised, and doesn’t collect passwords for other sites.” Epic added in a statementto the BBCthat they have “found no evidence to suggest a link between Houseparty and the compromises of other unrelated accounts.” And they believe that the rumours are more than merely mistaken - they’re malicious.

So they don’t have proof that it’s a commercial smear campaign.