KiranaPro is having the kind of month that startup founders have nightmares about. First came news of a hack that allegedly wiped out all the company’s data. Then the founder started pointing fingers at a former employee. Meanwhile, current and former employees are saying they haven’t seen their paychecks in months.
The Bengaluru-based grocery-tech startup operates as a buyer-side platform on the government-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), enabling users to purchase groceries from nearby kirana stores and supermarkets. But right now, KiranaPro’s operational challenges seem far more pressing than its business model.
The drama began when KiranaPro claimed it had been hacked, and that all its data had been deleted. On Thursday, the company's founder and Chief Technology Officer, Deepak Ravindran, took to LinkedIn to accuse a former employee of deleting KiranaPro's code from GitHub. A day earlier, YourStory had reported that the alleged hack on May 24 and 25 destroyed the company's app code and compromised sensitive customer information. Ravindran said they had contacted GitHub's support team to help trace the hacker's IP address and identify other digital footprints from the incident.
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