Security News > 2020 > March > Has Houseparty really hacked your phone and stolen your bank details?
If anyone is using that house party app DELETE IT My friends email account been hacked into by it And managed to get bank account details too and has hacked that.
To be honest, we can't tell you that the Houseparty app is bug-free, because we haven't decompiled or analysed it, and even if we had, working out that an app is totally free of vulnerabilities is a close-to-impossible exercise, as are many tasks where you are expected to prove a negative.
BOYCOTT HOUSEPARTY, just found out that's how my Spotify was hacked and how many others are being hacked on various things DELETE HOUSPARTY!!!!! They are hacking into spotifys, snapchats and even online banking!!! Didn't realise what was happening when i got these emails but is 100% that houseparty app!! Three new logins to my spotify and someone tried to reset my password for netflix!! Not worth it the risk.
Could a security bug in the app or a breach on Houseparty's own servers have a knock-on effect by which other hackers - not Houseparty itself, but opportunists elsewhere - could break into your other online accounts?
That's the trouble here, namely that however this Houseparty accusation fiasco started, the insistence to close your account and delete the app is simply not useful advice on its own, and is likely to leave you with a false sense of security even if you do so.